Election officials in Zimbabwe are set to verify results from the presidential election held on 29 March in the southern African state.
Representatives of the four presidential candidates attended a meeting with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission this afternoon, to compare their vote tallies with preliminary official results.
The meeting in the capital, Harare, comes a day after sources close to the electoral commission said that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was ahead in the count, with between 47% and 50% of the vote but no outright majority.
More than a month after voting day, no official results from the election have yet been released.
Today's meeting was expected to lead to the announcement of results but officials could not say when that would happen.
Mr Tsvangirai is running against Robert Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader and hero of Africa's national liberation movements, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.
Mr Tsvangirai earlier declared himself the outright winner of the vote based on his party's calculations but Mr Mugabe's camp says a second round will be required to elect a new president.
The difference in election figures given by the opposition and those from sources close to the electoral commission means the potential for discord at the meeting is high.
Neither the electoral commission nor representatives of the candidates have speculated on when the final results could be published.
