Mugabe håller pressträff inför valet i Zimbabwe

The MDC Alliance is an electoral bloc formed between 7 political parties in Zimbabwe on August 06, 2017. Most of the member parties are splinters from original Movement for Democratic Change and each other. The bloc was formed to contest the 2018 election. The MDC Alliance is now led by Nelson Chamisa who is also the new President of MDC-T. Chamisa replaced Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on the 14th of February 2018 after a long fight against colon cancer.

The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) has been the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and then as President from 1987 after the merger with the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and retaining the name ZANU–PF, until 2017 when he was removed as leader. At the 2008 parliamentary election, the ZANU–PF lost sole control of parliament for the first time in party history and brokered a difficult power-sharing deal with the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC), but subsequently won the 2013 election and gained a two-thirds majority. On 19 November 2017, ZANU-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as party leader, who resigned two days later, and appointed former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his place.