The Insider

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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An American consultant who was working the with the Zimbabwe Election Supervisory Network during the 2005 elections said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was likely to win a two-thirds majority in the election- which it eventually did- but the party had probably stolen the election.

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The Electoral Court which had ruled in favour of jailed Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament for Chimanimani Roy Bennett reversed itself in consultation with Bennett’s lawyers after an emotional public attack on the decision by President Robert Mugabe.

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The Electoral Court overturned the Chimanimani nomination court’s refusal to certify Roy Bennett as a candidate for the Chimanimani seat in the 2005 elections and allowed him to run.

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Movement for Democratic Change candidate Roy Bennett was barred from contesting the 2005 elections because he had been convicted of assaulting Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa in Parliament.

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The Agricultural Development Authority sold Movement for Democratic Change legislator Roy Bennett’s coffee crop for $200 000 to a Germany company and Bennett was arrested at the Harare airport on his way to South Africa to give proof to his lawyers.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front opened election space in the run-up to the 2005 elections after the Movement for Democratic Change had indicated that it would boycott the poll. 

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front is reported to have ferried 200 to 300 supporters to Parliament where they demonstrated against Chimanimani legislator Roy Bennett for assaulting Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa in the House.

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