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The Speaker of Parliament and Movement for Democratic Change chairman Lovemore Moyo said his primary goal was institutional reform and deZANUfication of society including a cleansing of the police and military.

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Exiled Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa drafted a power-sharing agreement under which Zimbabwe would have adopted the 1980 constitution which would have seen Robert Mugabe become ceremonial president while Morgan Tsvangirai became executive prime minister.

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President Robert Mugabe entered into the unity government with the Movement for Democratic Change because he had realised that his Zimbabwe African National Union-patriotic Front could not revive the economy on its own.

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Another Movement for Democratic Change advisor Kathi Walther on 30 April revealed that the Johannesburg-based MDC leadership did not have a concrete plan for moving ahead.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s plan to reward Abednico Bhebhe of the Arthur Mutambara faction for backing Lovemore Moyo to become Speaker of Parliament backfired when his lieutenants complained that he was sidelining the people of Matebeleland.

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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett was so frustrated by party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s delay in returning to Zimbabwe that he complained that Tsvangirai’s concerns about security were “nonsense” because he could be assassinated in South Africa or elsewhere on the continent if the Mugabe regime wanted him dead.

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Ambassadors-designate from France, Germany and Canada were put in a quandary when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs threatened not to accredit them if they did not present their papers before President Robert Mugabe.

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Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament for Chimanimani West Lynette Karenyi was convicted by magistrate Billard Musakwa of forging four signatures nominating her to contest the seat which she won by beating ZANU-PF candidate Munacho Mutezo in the 2008 elections..

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Publisher Trevor Ncube told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that losing presidential candidate Simba Makoni had been unable to form a coalition with Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change because Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa stood in the way.

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Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa told United States embassy officials that Morgan Tsvangirai’s US advisor Melinda Farris was a “big problem”.

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