People's Democratic Party (Zimbabwe)

Zimbabwean political party

People's Democratic Party

Founder	Tendai Biti
Founded	2015
Dissolved	2018
Split from	Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
Merged into	Movement for Democratic Change
Headquarters	Harare, Zimbabwe
Ideology	Democratic socialism Social democracy
National affiliation	MDC Alliance
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance
Website
https://www.facebook.com/Peoples-Democratic-Party-Zimbabwe-PDP-1743291559265230/
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The People's Democratic Party (PDP) was a political party in Zimbabwe. It was launched in September 2015 after a faction broke away from the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai. At their breakaway in 2014 they initially called themselves Movement for Democratic Change – Renewal. The president of the party was Tendai Biti, a former minister of finance of Zimbabwe serving in the Morgan Tsvangirai government 2009–2013. The party split in September 2017 over Tendai Biti and other party officials joining the MDC Alliance 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

"Parties & Organisations of the Progressive Alliance". progressive-alliance.info. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
Voice of Africa. "MDC Renewal Transforms Into People's Democratic Party With Biti Set to Become President". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
Lex Vambe (11 September 2018). "Chamisa names Ncube, Komichi as deputies, MDC re-unites". PaZimbabwe. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

External links

People's Democratic Party, Facebook

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Parliamentary parties	Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)
Other parties	Coalition of Democrats (CODE) Liberal Democrats Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) National Patriotic Front (NPF) Patriotic Union of Mandebeleland (PUMA) United Movement for Democratic Change (UMDC) United People's Party (UPP) United Parties Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga (ZANU–Ndonga) Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Zimbabwe African People's Union – Federal Party (ZAPU–FP) Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) Zimbabwe First Party (ZimFirst) Zimbabwe Labour Party (ZLP) Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance (ZYA)
Defunct Zimbabwean parties	Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe (CAZ) Forum Party of Zimbabwe (FPZ) Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-Alliance) Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC–N) Patriotic Front People's Democratic Party (PDP) Republican Front (RF) United African National Council (UANC) Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM) Zimbabwe United People's Organisation (ZUPO)
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Presidents	Canaan Banana (ZANU) Robert Mugabe (ZANU–PF) Emmerson Mnangagwa (ZANU–PF)
Prime Ministers	Robert Mugabe (ZANU–PF) Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC–T)
Key people	Nelson Chamisa (MDC–T, CCC) Arthur Mutambara (MDC–M) Abel Muzorewa (UANC) Joshua Nkomo (ZAPU, ZANU–PF) Welshman Ncube (MDC–N) Ndabaningi Sithole (ZANU, ZANU–Ndonga) Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC, MDC–T) Ian Smith (RF)
Armed factions	ZANLA (ZANU, ZANU–PF) ZIPRA (ZAPU) FROLIZI
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