Who won Zimbabwe's elections?

There is a general chorus in the western media also echoed by this newspaper that the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) won the elections in Zimbabwe in what independent election monitors described as "impossible to rig" and that therefore the "dictator", Robert Mugabe has to concede and step down.

But examining the official results one finds that:

1. In the parliamentary elections Mr Mugabe's party, Zanu Popular Front, got 46.3 per cent, a break-away faction of Zanu PF headed by Simba Makoni got just over six per cent of the popular vote, while the MDC got only 42.7 per cent.

2. In the election for the Senate, Zanu P.F. got just under 50 per cent of the popular vote, Simba Makoni got just over eight per cent while the MDC got only 41 per cent.

In the presidential election Zanu P.F. asked for a recount sensing foul by the opposition MDC because apparently the results there, strangely enough, contradicted the parliamentary and senate results and showed a relative majority in the popular vote for the candidate of the opposition Morgan Tsvangirai. In fact the police in Zimbabwe have arrested a number of election counters who apparently confessed to having deliberately "undercounted" a large amount of votes for Mr Mugabe which the official media puts in the thousands.

Of course Whitehall and their parrots of our western media will say that these allegations are false and sheer propaganda and that facts are that their puppets of the MDC won the majority of seats in the parliamentary elections and got the same number of seats in the Senate and so Mugabe has to go.

I am curious to know what would have happened if such a situation, where with a majority of the popular vote a party gets a minority of seats, were to occur in Malta. Or has it already happened but in our case the "dictator" was the person who, like the MDC, wanted to govern even with a minority of the popular vote?