{"id":35598,"date":"2021-02-26T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=35598"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:10:15","slug":"govt-awards-zanu-pf-mdc-a-100m-in-political-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-awards-zanu-pf-mdc-a-100m-in-political-funding","title":{"rendered":"Govt Awards ZANU PF, MDC-A $100m In Political Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>ZANU PF and the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) will share ZWL$100 million disbursed by Treasury under the Political Parties (Finance) Act in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi in a notice this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of General Notice 244 of 2021, ZANU PF shall be paid $70 030 000 after it received 70,03% of votes cast in the 2018 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The MDC Alliance, which received 29,9% of the total votes cast in the 2018 harmonised elections, will get $29 970 000. Said Ziyambi:<\/p>\n<p>IT is hereby notified, in terms of section 3(2) of the Political Parties (Finance)Act[Chapter 2:11], that the total amount of moneys payable to political parties in respect of the year beginning 1st January 2021 and ending on 31st December 2021, is one hundred million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The money shall be disbursed to political parties that qualify in terms of section 3(3) of the Act as follows\u2026 seventy million and thirty thousand dollars ($70 030 000,00) shall be paid to the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU (PF) which received 70,03% of the votes cast<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 twenty-nine million nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars ($29 970 000,00) shall be paid to the Movement for Democratic Change- ALLIANCE (MDC-A), which received 29,9% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>The Political Parties Finance Act stipulates that only a political party that secures 5 per cent of the total votes cast can benefit from the national budget.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2018 elections, ZANU PF won 145 of the 210 seats in the National Assembly against MDC-Alliance\u2019s 63.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining two seats were won by the National Patriotic Front\u2019s Masango \u201cBlackman\u201d Matambanadzo (Kwekwe Central), now late, and independent candidate Temba Mliswa (Norton).<\/p>\n<p>The MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa will not get a cent, however. Last year the government disbursed the funds meant for the MDC-A to the MDC-T after the latter, now led by Douglas Mwonzora, was reconstructed by the Supreme Court in March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. ZANU PF and the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) will share ZWL$100 million disbursed by Treasury under the Political Parties (Finance) Act in 2021. This was revealed by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi in a notice this Friday. 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