Vol 5 (AAC) No 9 | 
            - ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
	      On 11 June  while donating information technology equipment to Parliament  Xin told Lovemore Moyo  the MDC Speaker of the House of Assembly  Edna Madzongwe  the Zanu-PF Senate President  and assembled guests that Chinese business people worried about Mugabe’s push for elections this year  which they felt could slip into chaos...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s attempt to get Simon Khaya Moyo elected as Speaker of Parliament failed on 30 March when the former Speaker  Lovemore Moyo of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai  unexpectedly prevailed...
    ZANU-PF had wanted to insert a loyalist in his stead but Lovemore Moyo won by 105 votes to 93...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The Speaker’s chair is vacant following a successful campaign by ZANU-PF spin doctor Jonathan Moyo to get the Supreme Court to set aside the 2009 election of MDC National Chairman Lovemore Moyo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Khupe has lost much of her former popularity; National Chairman and Speaker Lovemore Moyo has distanced himself from her...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The Speaker of Parliament and Party Chairman  Lovemore Moyo  controls the Lower House and is a former combatant from Matebeleland  which helps the ethnic balance...
 Tsvangirai had wanted Abdenico Bhebe to head the Ministry of Water Affairs but dropped him because he belongs to Arthur Mutambara's MDC group; Bhebe had rallied parliamentarians from his party to back Tsvangirai's MDC National Chairman Lovemore Moyo as Speaker  resulting in the loss of their own candidate  Paul Themba Nyathi...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The election as Speaker of MDC-T Chairman Lovemore Moyo has been challenged by the independent member of parliament Jonathan Moyo  who says that the voting should have been secret...
 Lovemore Moyo might not win a second vote...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This also helped to disguise the fact that a few Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front members of parliament  including at least one ex-minister  had voted for Tsvangirai’s man  Lovemore Moyo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     He spoke on behalf of Mugabe and ZANU-PF when he congratulated MDC Chairman Lovemore Moyo on being elected Speaker...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The key officials in MDC-Tsvangirai are Tendai Biti  Secretary-General and member of parliament for Harare North-east; Thokozani Khupe  Vice-President and MP for Makokoba; Lovemore Moyo  National Chairman and MP for Matobo; Nelson Chamisa  MDC spokesman and MP for Kuwadzana; Eddie Cross  MDC Policy Coordinator General and MP for Bulawayo South; and Roy Bennett  MDC Treasurer General and former MP for Chimanimani...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The one former political detainee is Lovemore Moyo...