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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

The MDC factions together manage 109 seats in the 210-member Parliament about March 29 elections. An independent lawmaker, Jonathon Moyo, said Monday that he also might side with the hostility in the new Parliament.

One more advanced repugnance source reported 20 lawmakers from the long-ruling ZANU-PF party also had defected to the opposition camp, further boosting its majority. However, under Zimbabwean law, anyone crossing the floor to join any other party must put a face a by-election to keep the seat.

The MDC deal followed an announcement Saturday that recounts of 18 of 23 disputed parliamentary seats left initial results unchanged

Results of the final five disputed seats were due to have been announced Monday, but there was no mention of the ultimate reckon.

Late Monday, case radio in Zimbabwe quoted electoral-commission officials as speech it would be at smallest one more three days in front of the parliamentary results were final, but saying nothing about the presidential results.

Many ruling-party members obtain given up hope of victory should the results, as widely expected, ravish a second round of balloting between President Robert Mugabe and challenger Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC, sources in the party said. Most since see their best hope for the reason that a government of national unity, said the sources.

The failure of the two MDC factions to unite before the elections cost Tsvangirai’s followers an outright majority in the Parliament. His wing won 99 of the 210 seats. The smaller MDC group took 10 seats while backing a ruling-party defector, Simba Makoni, in the presidential race.

Tsvangirai insisted Monday that Mugabe should step down because of the parliamentary majority held by the MDC factions.

“In a parliamentary democracy, the majority rule,” Tsvangirai said. “He [Mugabe] should concede that he cannot be president.”

In fact, under Zimbabwe’s constitution the winner of the presidential argue, not the party that wins the parliamentary majority, has the right to cut a government.

The temperament calls instead of a second circuit of voting in a presidential choice if no candidate wins 50 percent plus one, and independent tallies suggest that Tsvangirai failed to be extended that goal. But he has ruled out participating in a second round unless international observers are present.