The People's Democratic Party (PDP) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

. It was launched in September 2015 after a faction broke away from the

Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai The Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left political party and was the main opposition party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. After the split of the origin ...

. At their breakaway in 2014 they initially called themselves Movement for Democratic Change – Renewal. The president of the party was

Tendai Biti Tendai Laxton Biti (born 6 August 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as List of Finance Ministers of Zimbabwe, Finance Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He is the second Vice President of Movement for Democratic Change (prior to ...

, a former minister of finance of Zimbabwe serving in the

Morgan Tsvangirai Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; ; 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democrati ...

government 2009–2013. The party split in September 2017 over Tendai Biti and other party officials joining the

MDC Alliance The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance is an electoral coalition of seven political parties formed to contest Zimbabwe's 2018 general election. After the 2018 election, a dispute arose over the use of the name MDC Alliance leading the MDC A ...

electoral bloc, with a breakaway faction being led by Lucia Matibenga in an interim capacity. After the 2018 election, the Tendai Biti-led faction of the PDP re-united with other splinter groups of the original MDC ( MDC-T and MDC-N) to form a single party under the original name Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). This party is not related to the former Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party (ZPDP) formed in 1991 and led by Isabel Shanangurai Madangure. It participated in the 2005 legislative elections but never had parliamentary representation.

References

External links

People's Democratic Party
Facebook 2015 establishments in Zimbabwe 2018 disestablishments in Zimbabwe Defunct political parties in Zimbabwe Democratic socialist parties in Africa Movement for Democratic Change Political parties disestablished in 2018 Political parties established in 2015 Social democratic parties in Africa Socialist parties in Zimbabwe Zimbabwean democracy movements {{Zimbabwe-party-stub