Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party claimed that is would contest the election results for 16 parliamentary seats, the Los Angeles Times reports. It appears that Mugabe also demanded to fight MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a runoff for the presidency.

According to the opposition officials, Morgan Tsvangirai won the election. However, both Mugabe and Tsvangirai would participate in a runoff if the final results show that the opposition leader gained less then the required 50% plus one vote. The MDC party previously asked the United Nations to interfere during the runoff campaign, as they are concerns that Mugabe may stage a violent suppression in order to maintain power.

“They are trying to intimidate people, they are trying to set up the context for unleashing violence. The vampire instincts of this regime are definitely going to come out,” Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for the opposition, declared quoted by the Associated Press. “The U.N. has to make sure that there is no violence in this country… They should not [wait to] come when there is blood in the street, blood in the villages,” he added.

Meanwhile, the U.S. and other Western countries asked for the presidential results to be declared. According to the law, a runoff must take place within 21 days of the first elections. It seems that Mugabe, 84, is masterminding a 90-day delay in order to give security forces time to intimidate voters. Mugabe ruled uninterrupted since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. His image suffered a huge deterioration due to the former British colony’s high rate of inflation. In Zimbabwe, the unemployment level reached the 80 percent mark.