Tanzania opposition rejects 'illegitimate' election, alleges fraud

STONE TOWN - Tanzania's main opposition presidential candidate Thursday declared he would not recognise the election result as key seats fell to the ruling party in a vote he said was marred by irregularities.

Magufuli's main challenger, the Chadema party candidate Tundu Lissu, declared the results trickling through "illegitimate" and urged his supporters to demonstrate peacefully, while asking the international community not to recognise the outcome. However several opposition MPs lost seats in long-held bastions, such as Chadema chairman and lawmaker Freeman Mbowe of Hai in the Kilimanjaro region.In volatile Zanzibar, opposition presidential candidate Seif Sharif Hamad was arrested along with top leaders of the ACT-Wazalendo party, after he called for protests against election results there.

"If we don't get our rights through the ballot boxes then we have no choice but to demand this right through the streets."

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