Zimbabwe's ruling party is now in a position to fully implement and pursue its polices as it has won the parliamentary election, the Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals Rugare Gumbo said on Tuesday.

"My party will now... fully implement our policies without hindrance as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was sabotaging the nation in order to cast the blame on the ruling party," said Gumbo.

Gumbo, also member of parliament for Mberengwa East, described last Thursday's parliamentary election victory for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) as a " watershed" for the party.

ZANU-PF won 78 seats while MDC got 41 and one seat went to former minister of information Jonathan Moyo who stood as an independent candidate for Tsholotsho constituency.

He said the MDC had been over-confident of winning the two- third majority seats when results for urban votes were being announced, but was very disappointed after midday when ZANU-PF began winning most of the rural seats.

MDC rejected the poll result, accusing the ruling party of rigging and called for an uprising from its supporters to "defend its vote" against the ruling party.

The Zimbabwe police has said on Monday that it will use everything at its disposal to ensure that peace prevails in the post-election period.