Twenty-one opposition MPs have been expelled from Zimbabwe's parliament after they broke away to form a new party.
Speaker Jacob Mudenda ordered the expulsion of the MPs, led by former Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
The group had contested the 2013 election under the banner of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. They later split to form MDC Renewal after rejecting his leadership.
The expulsions pave the way for by-elections in the
constituencies of the 14 MPs who were directly elected, reports the
BBC's Brian Hungwe from the capital, Harare.
The MDC will be able to nominate replacements for the other
seven seats as they were allocated according to the proportion of votes
cast in the last election, he says.
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