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What happened in Zimbabwe's 2008 election?

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The 2008 president election was similarly marred, but opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won a plurality of the vote and forced a runoff; Tsvangirai was subsequently driven to withdraw from the runoff by violence against his supporters and threats against himself.

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