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Movement for Democratic Change polling agents were harassed by youths and war veterans sympathetic to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who tampered with ballot boxes to give President Robert Mugabe a wider margin of victory in the 2002 presidential elections.

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Human rights lawyer Arnold Tsunga said former Member of Parliament Roy Bennett had fled to London and not South Africa as was being reported in the media after intense media speculation and police search.

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Lawyer Trust Manda said two Movement for Democratic Change officials Knowledge Nyamhuka and Thando Sibanda, who were arrested in connection with the discovery of arms in Mutare were pressed by police to implicate former Member of Parliament Roy Bennett.

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Roy Bennett was among the 10 Movement for Democratic Change officials arrested in connection with the discovery of arms in Mutare together with Mutare North Member of Parliament Giles Mutsekwa.

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Roy Bennett and Tendai Biti promised to get rid of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s “kitchen cabinet” which had reportedly become a major liability for the party.

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Roy Bennett, Tendai Biti and David Coltart were part of a group of Movement for Democratic Change leaders who were disappointed by both the Morgan Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube factions and were pushing to create a more democratic and more vigorous opposition party that could eventually reunify and challenge for power.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Roy Bennett, who had just been elected chairman of Manicaland, had admirable energy but needed to take a more strategic vision.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislator for Chimanimani Roy Bennett said party leader Morgan Tsvangirai was their only chance in the next presidential elections and would gave to remain atop the party “for now”.

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Tendai Biti, who was the Movement for Democratic Change’s Shadow Minister for Economics, told United States embassy officials that though he had always been critical of party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s acting outside the constitution, he came to recognise that everybody, especially secretary general Welshman Ncube, was ignoring the party constitution willy-nilly. He, therefore, asked why should Tsvangirai be held to a higher standard?

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As many as 100 000 voters were turned away during the 2005 elections which the Movement for Democratic Change claimed the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had rigged but failed to produce any semblance of a parallel vote count, undercutting its claims of fraud.

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