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schema:articleBody	Zimbabwe's top court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the country's largest opposition party. Chamisa's leadership was contested by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party's vice president Thokozani Khupe who claimed she was the legitimate heir of iconic opposition figure Morgan Tsvangirai after his death in February 2018. The party split into two factions with Khupe leading the MDC-T and Chamisa leading the MDC-Alliance under whose banner he contested the 2018 presidential election which he lost narrowly to incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa. Provincial party leader, Elias Mashavira, in 2018 challenged Chamisa's appointment in court. In a 2019 ruling, High Court judge Edith Mushore declared Chamisa's leadership "unconstitutional and therefore null and void." The MDC claimed at that time that the ruling was part of a big plot by President Mnangagwa's governing ruling Zanu-PF party to destabilise it. Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling means that whoever was leading the MDC during Tsvangirai's time, automatically returns to their positions under the MDC-Alliance banner. Morgan Komichi, who now stands in line to reclaim his position of chairman, welcomed the ruling, saying the highest court had laid to rest a "dispute that has long been affecting our party." Senior party official, Douglas Mwonzora, who will return to his position as secretary-general backed Komichi. "There is no need to denigrate the courts any more, the courts have ruled," Mwonzora said. "We are a party of rules, and we are a party of law." But Tendai Biti, a vice president of MDC-Alliance dismissed the ruling saying the MDC had held a legitimate congress which elected Chamisa as president. He argued the leadership dispute was brought before the courts by an ordinary member of the party and not by Khupe himself. str/mgu/ach
schema:headline	Zimbabwe's top court says Chamisa not legitimate opposition leader
schema:mentions	Morgan Tsvangirai William O. Douglas Nelson Chamisa Morgan Grimes Supreme Court of Pakistan Federal Constitutional Court High Court of Justice Zimbabwe President of the United States Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai Thokozani Khuphe Tendai Biti 2018 Venezuelan presidential election Sian Elias MDC Alliance ZANU–PF Emmerson Mnangagwa Destabilise
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schema:datePublished	2020-03-31 (xsd:date)
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