The Zimbabwe Development Party is a minor
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
an political party. It ran nine candidates in the
Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 but fared poorly, winning just 608 votes (0.03%).
The party was launched on 4 February 2008 in
Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
by
Kisnot Mukwazhi
Kisinoti Munodei Mukwazhe (also spelled Kisnot Mukwazhi) (died 17 November 2019) was president of the Zimbabwe Development Party and was a presidential candidate for the 2013 Zimbabwean general election
General elections were held in Zimbabwe ...
, a former
ZANU-PF member. At the party's launch, attended by about fifty people, Mukwazhi praised ZANU-PF's policies and
Robert Mugabe while castigating the
MDC and
Morgan Tsvangirai. The party's founders left the launch when grilled by journalists on the circumstances behind the party's sudden formation.
Mukwazhi stood as the party's presidential candidate for the
Zimbabwean general election, 2013
General elections were held in Zimbabwe on 31 July 2013. Incumbent President Robert Mugabe was re-elected, whilst his ZANU–PF party won a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly.
Background
This was the first election held under the new ...
.
References
Political parties in Zimbabwe
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