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Movement for Genuine Democratic Change

political party in Malawi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ6926658 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Movement for Genuine Democratic Change is a political party in Malawi.

At the last general elections, 20 May 2004, the party was part of the Mgwirizano Coalition, that won 27 out of 194 seats.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Movement for Genuine Democratic Change” is political party in Malawi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Movement, Genuine and Democratic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Movement, Genuine and Democratic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Movement for Genuine Democratic Change” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.