{"id":23335,"date":"2020-05-19T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=23335"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:17:05","slug":"chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa Challenges Mwonzora Over MDC Alliance Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s assertion that the MDC Alliance is not a political party but was a coalition of seven political parties which dissolved after the 2018 General Elections.<\/p>\n<p>The MDC Alliance president, who was unanimously elected at the party\u2019s congress in Gweru last year, asked if ZANU PF ceased to exist when ZANU and ZANU merged in 1987 in a pact known as the Unity Accord. Chamisa tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>Is Zanu pf not a political party because it is an alliance or a unity accord between Zanu and Zapu?<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em>ZBC News<\/em>\u00a0reporter Justin Mahlahla earlier on Tuesday, Mwonzora said that the MDC Alliance is not a political party but an electoral pact which ceased to exist at the end of the 2018 harmonised elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s assertion that the MDC Alliance is not a political party but was a coalition of seven political parties which dissolved after the 2018 General Elections. The MDC Alliance president, who was unanimously elected at the party\u2019s congress in Gweru last year, asked if ZANU PF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,113,88],"class_list":["post-23335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-zanu-pf","tag-chamisa","tag-mdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chamisa Challenges Mwonzora Over MDC Alliance Remarks - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s assertion that the MDC Alliance is not a political\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chamisa Challenges Mwonzora Over MDC Alliance Remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s assertion that the MDC Alliance is not a political\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-19T20:17:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/8tigjrob9z4-1200x600-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chamisa Challenges Mwonzora Over MDC Alliance Remarks\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-19T20:17:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/8tigjrob9z4-1200x600-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"#Zanu PF\",\"Chamisa\",\"MDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-challenges-mwonzora-over-mdc-alliance-remarks\",\"name\":\"Chamisa Challenges Mwonzora Over MDC Alliance Remarks - 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