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Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Justice David Coltart said the party would impose conditions on inter-party talks and boycott flawed elections after the government had announced more than a year in advance that the 2005 parliamentary elections would be held March.

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Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister of Justice David Coltart approached Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade and former South African President Nelson Mandela to put pressure on South African President Thabo Mbeki to be more forceful with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front inflated the number of voters in Mutare, Gwanda, Makonde and Gweru prior to the local government elections of 2003, according to an audit by the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Movement for Democratic Change Secretary for Legal Affairs David Coltart said the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front’s intolerance of the opposition was deeply ingrained and went far beyond President Robert Mugabe.

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Political scientist John Makumbe advised the Movement for Democratic Change not to waste too much time and resources in campaigning in the 2002 local government elections but it still had to contest to “keep the fire burning”.

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Bulawayo legislator and Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister of Justice David Coltart told United States embassy officials that he was not going to leave Zimbabwe and threats from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front were just mind games.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told an indigenisation forum that the government had abandoned its “Look East” policy and would now look neither East nor West for investment.

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Arthur Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change suspended six party officials on 9 May 2009 for bringing the party into disrepute.

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