(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-04-06 13:58

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has called for a recount in last week's presidential election, the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper said.

A video grab taken from state television shows Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe talking with ZANU-PF politburo members in Harare April 4, 2008. [Agencies]

The Sunday Mail said ZANU-PF had asked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) "to recount and audit all its electoral material relating to last week's presidential election following revelations of errors and miscalculations in the compilation of the poll result".

"Consequent to the anomalies, the party has also requested that the commission defer the announcement of the presidential election result," the paper said in its online edition.

The Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said it won the March 29 presidential election.

The newspaper also quoted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as saying ZANU-PF had rejected what Chinamasa described as an offer from opposition party leader Tsvangirai to form a unity government.