FACTBOX - Zimbabwe's new parliament speaker
(Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Monday won the vote for parliament speaker, dealing a blow to President Robert Mugabe in a post-election power struggle.
The Movement for Democratic Change's Lovemore Moyo, 43, takes one of the most powerful positions in Zimbabwean politics.
Here are some details about Moyo:
* He was national chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change and won 110 votes in the 210-member assembly, beating a candidate from a breakaway opposition faction.
* Moyo was born in 1965. At the age of 12, he left the rural district of Matobo in Matabeleland for Zambia to help liberate Rhodesia from white minority rule.
* He stayed in Zambia for several years and whilst there, received military training for one of the liberation movements, ZAPU. The group was led by Joshua Nkomo, a rival of Mugabe.
* Moyo became a legislator for Matobo North, in a stronghold of the opposition, in 2000.
* During election campaigning in June, Moyo was detained by police with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai for several hours.
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