Edna Madzongwe

Edna Madzongwe

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Edna Madzongwe (born July 11 1943) is the President of the Senate of Zimbabwe. [ cite web|url=http://www.parlzim.gov.zw/inside.aspx?mpgid=2&spid=8|title=Parliament of Zimbabwe |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] She was previously Deputy-Secretary for Production and Labor.

She was elected to the presidency of the Senate on November 30 2005. In the March 2008 parliamentary election, she was re-elected to the Senate from Chegutu constituency, receiving 23,032 votes against 14,275 for Violet Paneairi Mokoesti of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-Tsvangirai). [ [http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral218.18003.html "Zimbabwe senate election results"] , newzimbabwe.com.] Following this election, in which ZANU-PF won control of the Senate but not the House of Assembly, Madzongwe was re-elected as President of the Senate on August 25 2008, receiving 58 votes. Gibson Sibanda, whose candidacy was supported by the two MDC factions (MDC-Tsvangirai and MDC-Mutambara), received 28 votes. [ [http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/parly45.18666.html "Madzongwe wins Senate presidency"] , Newzimbabwe.com, August 26, 2008.]

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