United Movement for Democratic Change

{{short description|Political party in Zimbabwe}}

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United Movement for Democratic Change is a Zimbabwean political party founded in November 2014 as a merger of two parties descended from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC): the Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC-N) headed by Welshman Ncube, which broke away from MDC in 2005, and the MDC Renewal Team led by Tendai Biti, which broke away from Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai in 2014 in protest against what they saw as the ineffectual leadership and increasingly authoritarian tendencies of party chairman Morgan Tsvangirai.{{cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201411230513.html|title=Zimbabwe: Biti, Ncube's MDCs Unite|work=allAfrica.com}} The party is intended as the core of a united opposition movement in Zimbabwe and is jointly led by Ncube and Sekai Holland. It aimed to hold a formative party congress in August 2015 to agree on a manifesto.{{Cite web |url=http://thezimbabwemail.com/umdc-will-tsvangirai-be-persuaded-to-join/ |title=UMDC: Will Tsvangirai be Persuaded to Join? | the Zimbabwe Mail |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141203140915/http://thezimbabwemail.com/umdc-will-tsvangirai-be-persuaded-to-join/ |archive-date=3 December 2014 |url-status=dead}} The party has 17 MPs (15 from MDC Renewal Team and 2 from MDC-N) and 2 Senators (both former Renewal Team members) making it the third strongest parliamentary party in Zimbabwe.