The United States on Saturday called elections in Zimbabwe “deeply flawed” and said results that showed President Robert Mugabe winning a seventh term were not credible.

“In light of substantial electoral irregularities reported by domestic and regional observers, the United States does not believe that the results announced today represent a credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.

“Though the United States was restricted from monitoring these elections, the balance of evidence indicates that today’s announcement was the culmination of a deeply flawed process,” he said, pointing to irregularities in voter rolls, unequal access to state media by the candidates, uneven security protection of the election, and a failure by the government to implement political reforms.

Kerry called on the Southern African Development Community and the African Union to address their concerns with the election and for Zimbabwe’s government “to chart a way forward that will give the people of Zimbabwe the opportunity to express their most fundamental democratic right in a free and fair environment.”