United Movement for Democratic Change is a

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an political party founded in November 2014 as a merger of two parties descended from the

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(MDC): the

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(MDC-N) headed by

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, which broke away from MDC in 2005, and the MDC Renewal Team led by

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, which broke away from

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in 2014 in protest against what they saw as the ineffectual leadership and increasingly authoritarian tendencies of party chairman

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. The party is intended as the core of a united opposition movement in Zimbabwe and is jointly led by Ncube and

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. It aimed to hold a formative party congress in August 2015 to agree on a

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. The party has 17 MPs (15 from MDC Renewal Team and 2 from MDC-N) and 2 Senators (both former Renewal Team members) making it the third strongest parliamentary party in Zimbabwe.

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