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

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but fared poorly, winning just 608 votes (0.03%). The party was launched on 4 February 2008 in

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by Kisnot Mukwazhi, a former ZANU-PF member. At the party's launch, attended by about fifty people, Mukwazhi praised ZANU-PF's policies and

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while castigating the MDC and

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. 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

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References

Political parties in Zimbabwe {{Zimbabwe-party-stub