The National Patriotic Front (NPF) is a

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an political party founded on 19 November 2017 by leaders of the expelled G40 faction of the ZANU-PF party, which included the exiled

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, Patrick Zhuwao and

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. The party denounced the military takeover in November 2017, known as Operation Restore Legacy, that led to President

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's resignation. In March 2018, retired

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Ambrose Mutinhiri resigned from parliament and left the ZANU-PF to become president of the NPF, and shortly thereafter Ambrose Mutinhiri was announced as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections. In late May 2018 a video of Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwawo discussing the NPF's internal problems was

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online. In the video the two former G40 leaders alleged the possible abuse of party funds by its spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire and party president Ambrose Mutinhiri. Mawarire reacted by calling Moyo a "bloody liar and petty thief." On 8 June 2018 the party's national chairperson Eunice Sandi Moyo fired Ambrose Mutinhiri as party president. This led to a split in the party. The faction of NPF led by Moyo later endorsed the MDC Alliance's leader

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for president whereas Ambrose Mutinhiri ran as a candidate for the faction under his leadership, but got less than 1% of the vote. The faction led by Eunice Sandi Moyo is closely aligned with the Mugabe family, it won a seat in the July 2018 general election when Masango Matambanadzo won the

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Central constituency, for which he had represented the ZANU-PF until leaving the party earlier the same year.

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