FACTBOX: Reaction to result of Zimbabwe's presidential vote

(Reuters) - Below is reaction to the result of Zimbabwe's presidential election, in which the electoral commission said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe but not by enough to avoid a run-off.

SPOKESPERSON FOR BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE

"Election results released five weeks after polling day lack credibility but it is clear that at least 60 percent of the population voted for change in Zimbabwe. President Mugabe's campaign of violence and intimidation coupled with the arrest of 99 electoral commission officials in the last month shows exactly how ZANU-PF will approach any second round.

Without an immediate end to violence and the introduction of a wider range of international monitors and in much greater numbers than were present for the first, no second round could be free and fair."

TOM CASEY, SPOKESMAN, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT

"It's pretty hard to see how there can be a meaningful run-off in Zimbabwe when the government has done everything it could to both delay and obscure the results."

"It is a little difficult, I think, for people to take that issue (a run-off) seriously when the government of Zimbabwe is busy harassing, repressing, arresting and abusing members of the opposition"

"It's very hard to see how you have a run-off election and a campaign that meets any kind of international standard under these kinds of circumstances."

RICHARD SEGAL, AFRICA STRATGEGIST, RENAISSANCE CAPITAL