{"id":28770,"date":"2020-10-11T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=28770"},"modified":"2020-10-11T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:51:16","slug":"mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll","title":{"rendered":"MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central parliamentary candidate to represent the main Nelson Chamisa-led formation in the coming by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The seat fell vacant after the death of National Patriotic Front MP Masango Matambanadzo in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>MDC alliance deputy national youth assembly treasurer Judith Tobaiwa (pictured below) won the race with a landslide victory after polling 1 328 votes. Former MP for the constituency blessing Chebundo was a distant second with 496 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Former Health Minister in the inclusive government, , managed a paltry 43 votes, while Edmore Marongwe got 22 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Searchmore Muringani, mDC alliance midlands deputy spokesperson, said the Chamisa camp would grab the parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll our candidates accepted the vote results,\u201d Muringani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no violence. all supporters are now headed to win the seat at the ZeC (Zimbabwe electoral Commission) elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were united in the exercise of today and we showed the world we are the opposite of Zanu-PF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are yearning for change in Kwekwe and we will deliver it with guidance from president Chamisa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central parliamentary candidate to represent the main Nelson Chamisa-led formation in the coming by-elections. The seat fell vacant after the death of National Patriotic Front MP Masango Matambanadzo in June this year. MDC alliance deputy national youth assembly treasurer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[113,88],"class_list":["post-28770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central\" \/>\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\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MDC alliance bigwigs yesterday fell by the wayside in party primary elections to select the Kwekwe Central\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-11T18:51:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Henry-Madzorera.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"674\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"386\" \/>\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\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-11T18:51:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Henry-Madzorera.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chamisa\",\"MDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-bigwigs-lose-primary-poll\",\"name\":\"MDC Alliance bigwigs lose primary poll - 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