President
Season 35 Episode 5 | 1h 52m 50sVideo has Audio Description
A new leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
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President
Season 35 Episode 5 | 1h 52m 50sVideo has Audio Description
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
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ZEC.
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[ Cellphone vibrates ] -Sorry?
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Okay.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Reporters murmuring ] [ Reporters murmuring ] [ Reporters clamoring ] [ Reporters shouting ] -Thank you.
♪♪ ♪♪ -This is a coup.
-...53 votes, 50.8%.
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And then we will get going.
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[ Clicking continues ] Here was a celebration of Zimbabwean democracy, first of all, of unfettered freedom.
-...Your Excellency, President.
-I'm an independent journalist.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Indistinct conversations ] -Thank you, thank you.
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♪♪ -[ Exhales ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -[ Laughs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Camera shutters clicking, indistinct conversations ] [ Zimbabwe national anthem playing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cannon blast ] [ Down-tempo music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪
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