Sentences with phrase «pf party»

His main rivals within the ruling Zanu - PF party are the younger Generation 40 or G40 group, which has Grace Mugabe's support.

Chombo, who was appointed finance minister in October, was among members of the G40 political faction allied to Mugabe and his wife, Grace, who were also expelled from the ruling ZANU - PF party.

Chiwenga had threatened Mugabe and his ruling Zanu - PF party after the sacking of vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Harare, Zimbabwe — Defiant President Robert Mugabe could lose his 37 - year grip on Zimbabwe within days, with a motion to impeach him on Tuesday's parliament agenda introduced by the ruling ZANU - PF party.

While the governing ZANU - PF party, which has turned against its leader, holds a parliamentary majority, it may have to team up with opposition legislators to make up the required numbers.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who in November over from former president Robert Mugabe, has been endorsed by the ruling ZANU - PF party as its presidential candidate for the 2018 elections.

These signs of weakness in a man who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 35 years have injected new urgency into factional battles led by the elite within his ruling ZANU - PF party.

Robert Mugabe became Zimbabwe's first Prime Minister in 1980, following the victory of his Marxist - nationalist ZANU - PF party.

Former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa will now take power in Zimbabwe, the ruling ZANU PF Party said in a statement.

The ruling Zanu - PF party, which at the weekend voted to make Mnangagwa its leader and demote Mugabe to a rank - and - file member, introduced the motion to impeach and the opposition seconded it.

Mr Mugabe who was forced to resign after 37 years in power under pressure from the army and ruling ZANU - PF party.

Not exact matches

With ZANU - PF due to choose new leadership next month and a general elections scheduled for next year, this year has seen furious maneuvering in the party elite.

Impeachment proceedings against Mugabe began earlier on Tuesday as the ruling party, Zanu - PF, attempted to remove him from office.

The PF manifesto had strong leftist rhetoric but once in power the party followed a neoliberal agenda.

He added that ZANU - PF had approached the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party to seek their cooperation to pass the necessary parliamentary votes.

Mujuru is believed to be planning to form a new party to contest the next elections, but given ZANU - PF's record of vote rigging analysts say the real battle for power lies within the ruling party itself.

«Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU - PF... and was nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections,» said a party official at a meeting in Harare.

«That's why ZANU - PF can afford to engage in factional fighting because they know there is no strong opponent outside the party.

Despite the infighting within the ruling party, the chances of an outsider winning the next election are seen as slim, and not only because of ZANU - PF's history of manipulating elections.

As is true of the period before 2000, opposition to the ZANU - PF came from the minority ethnic Ndebele, but also and more importantly from among the majority ethnic Shona, which meant that the ruling party found itself with a declining popular base.

All the same, the ZANU - PF tolerated the existence of opposition parties that contested elections but deny them the possibility of ever winning elections.

The country's ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front (ZANU - PF) has announced that there was no coup in the country, only that President Robert Mugabe and his wife, have been detained and that the president has been replaced with Emmerson Mnagngawa, the erstwhile vice president who was recently sacked and exiled by Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who fled Zimbabwe after being dismissed on November 6 amid a power to struggle with Grace Mugabe, was reinstated as ZANU - PF's vice president and appointed interim party leader.

Obviously, Comrade Mugabe must have convinced himself that he had become more important than the ZANU PF, and valued himself and his wishes over and above the wishes of the Party.

What most people in Labour refuse to admit is that they are no longer a party pf the left — they are a centre - right party.

I remenber I came to Mario Party Legacy because pf Mario Party 9 then it branched out to MTO then the whole Mario series and i think that made the website really popular because of different Mario games

The buildup to this contest was equally, if not more skewed in the ruling party ZANU - PF's favor than the previous election, where a first round victory by the MDC provoked a vicious campaign of official repression by ZANU - PF and the military against the opposition.

One of the «PFS Participation Requirements» was: «To meet the PFS Addendum requirements, brokers and their agents may only represent the buyer or the seller, but not both parties.»

The parties are still working on some remaining discovery issues, and working on creating Plaintiff Fact Sheets (PFS) and Defendant Fact Sheets (DFS).

A commentator in the Zimbabwe Independent noted at the time: «Goddie has become blinded by his allegiance to [ruling party] Zanu - PF that it is difficult to imagine him being impartial when presiding in a case in which the party or its government is a contestant.»