In a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_presidential_election,_2008" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008">highly scrutinized election</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Zimbabwe" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Zimbabwe">President of Zimbabwe</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Tsvangirai" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Morgan Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_Democratic_Change_–_Tsvangirai" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai">his party</a>'s supporters.