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The Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) is a new opposition political party in Botswana. It was established in 2010 by MPs and other politicians who split from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party over differences with Ian Khama the BDP’s leader and President of Botswana. It was the first party to split from the BDP which has ruled Botswana since independence in 1966. Its leader is Gomolemo Motswaledi elected on May 2 2011 at the party’s inaugural congress.