The European Parliament on Friday called for tighter economic sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe and urged the international community, including African nations, not to recognize his re-election.

The EU assembly voted overwhelmingly, 591 to 8, demanding EU nations draft and implement new sanctions against Mugabe’s government and take additional measures to dissuade European companies from doing business in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe won a presidential election run-off last month in which he ran unopposed after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dropped out because of attacks on his followers. Mugabe’s victory has been widely scorned.

The parliament said the 27-nation EU should also push for U.N. sanctions, including an arms embargo.

The EU lawmakers’ resolution called on EU governments to “tighten and extend” targeted sanctions against members of Mugabe’s government and “others responsible for grave violations of human rights.”

They stressed “the elections of 27 June cannot be regarded as legitimate,” and as such called on African countries to suspend Zimbabwe from their regional meetings to put pressure on Mugabe “until free and fair elections are held.”

The parliament said new measures should also “name and shame” business people that finance Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and expose banks that provide loans and investment to Mugabe.

Lawmakers said shareholders of such banks had to be made aware that some financial companies were acting as go-betweens for Mugabe and his supporters.

The resolution also called for more United Nations involvement to mediate with South Africa between Mugabe and Tsvangirai.

Graham Watson, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the EU assembly, called for the African Union to do more to push for a democratic solution to the crisis. “No longer can this conspiracy of silence continue,” he said. “One wonders why the International Criminal Court has not yet issued a warrant for Mugabe’s arrest.”

The lawmakers said the EU should also ready an aid package for Zimbabwe, if Tsvangirai is able to take power there as part of a unity government.

Speaking in Brussels, Henrietta Holsman Fore, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, appealed to Mugabe to allow aid groups the freedom to operate freely amid shortages of food.

“It is a time in which we are all deeply concerned about the people of Zimbabwe,” Fore said.