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No chance for opposition

Zimbabwe’s opposition parties are unlikely to unseat the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in 2018 because they have never been able to get more than 1.4 million votes over the past decade, a South African civic organisation, the Solidarity Peace Trust said. In a report authored by Zimbabwean academic Brian Raftopoulos, SPT said: “In three out of the last four elections, ZANU PF has scored comfortably over 1.5 million votes, and over 2 million in 2013. The figures from the last five elections all point to the unlikelihood of any opposition party unseating ZANU PF in 2018. The MDC-T vote has remained consistent over the last decade in terms of numbers, while the ZANU PF vote has generally, with the exception of 2008, been several hundred thousand votes more than the opposition vote.”

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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