82:, gaining 195 votes and the Senate election in Gwabalanda (Bulawayo), gaining 734 votes. ZAPU-FP has participated in the National Constitutional Assembly's effort at drawing up a new home-grown constitution for Zimbabwe with its current president Sikhumbuzo Dube having been the chairperson of NCA's Political Parties Liaison committee and serving as national Taskforce member. ZAPU-FP also participated in the outreaches for collection of data and in the crafting of the current Zimbabwe constitution which came into force in 2013. ZAPU-FP advocates for the federation of Zimbabwe into five provinces/states of Mashonaland, Manyikaland, Masvingo, Matabeleland and Midlands to which executive, judicial and legislative authority is devolved and constitutionally guaranteed to ensure equitable distribution of political power as well as economic resources.
59:. Paul Siwela left the leadership of the party in January 2008 in order to initiate a broader Matabeleland alliance, the Federal Democratic Union, with a view to forming a militant front that sought to consolidate the Matabeleland vote into an electoral block that could be used to renegotiate the region's political trajectory. The ZAPU FP Secretary General, Sikhumbuzo Dube, claimed to have fired Paul Siwela from the party for which he assumed the role of President. Both Sikhumnuzo Dube and Paul Siwela stood unsuccessfully for election as candidates of ZAPU FP and the Federal Democratic Union, respectively.
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