A Zimbabwean opposition leader yesterday raised the prospect of "mass mobilisation" in the event of government fraud in today's parliamentary election, and ruled out resorting to the courts, as the opposition did in 2000 and 2002.

Welshman Ncube, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party, declined to be specific on the party's plans should it wish to challenge the results of the widely criticised poll.