Huge+crowd+attends+MDC+election+campaign+launch




 * MDC Pressroom, 27 February 2008**

=Huge crowd attends MDC election campaign launch=

HARARE---A record crowd of 60 000 people turned up today at Sakubva stadium in Mutare in Manicaland province for the MDC"s election campaign launch ahead of the watershed plebiscite on 29 March 2008.

Thousands more had to be turned away by riot police as they tried to make their way into the full stadium where a carnival atmosphere of song and dance brought a deafening din to the tranquil environs of the working class suburb of Sakubva.

Thousands came from all corners of the country to attend the launch, where the MDC unveiled its manifesto as well as the party's candidates for the forthcoming election, who are dubbed "the winning New Zimbabwe team."

The party also unfurled a music album with party messages which was well received by the thousands who came from all the 12 provinces to witness the launch of the party's election campaign ahead of the watershed poll.

They came by train, by road, on foot, on bicycles, on buses and in their private vehicles to witness the start of the big journey to a new Zimbabwe.

President Tsvangirai assured the huge crowd that he would not betray them. He said the MDC was a people's project aimed at total transformation and not reform. He said he was alive to the national mandate on him and the party to deliver a new Zimbabwe and a new beginning.

Vice President Hon Thokozani Khupe and the secretary-general Hon Tendai Biti also addressed the mammoth crowd.

The town of Mutare ground to halt as the MDC juggernaut rolled into the eastern border town to launch the people's campaign for food and jobs; it is a campaign to reclaim our dignity, to bring back real money and the values and ethos that we have lost during 28 years of misgovernance and dictatorship.

Starting this week, the MDC's election tsunami rolls into life in all corners of the country. The party's manifesto, which prioritises a new, people driven Constitution as the foundation for a new Zimbabwe, was given out to delegates who attended the launch. The party is also flighting advertisements in national newspapers to publicise the party's manifesto and policy programmes to showcase what we will do in critical sectors such as the economy, land, communications, transport, health and education.

The people's campaign has just rolled into life. A New Zimbabwe, a new beginning. Now is the time!

Political Liaison Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-Zimbabwe) Regional Office
 * Mr. Nqobizitha Mlilo M (LLB-UCT)

Phone : +27 11 726 1687 Fax : +27 11 799 6110 Cell : +27 83 527 4650 email : mlilo@mdcregional.co.za

[|www.mdcregional.co.za] [|www.mdczw.org]**


 * For pictures of the rally see [|http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/2397/2008-02-27.html<span]**

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