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Opposition designates parliamentary leader

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on Wednesday named party vice-president Gibson Sibanda as the leader of the opposition in parliament.

    Morgan Tsvangirai, president and founder of the party, failed to win his Buhera North seat in parliamentary polls at the weekend. In a statement released after the party’s first meeting since it garnered 57 out of 120 contested seats, the MDC said it was taking 10 cases of “electoral irregularities” to court.

    Earlier this week the MDC said it was planning to challenge the outcome of at least 20 of the constituencies it lost in the elections to the ruling ZANU-PF.

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