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Zanu-PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday signed the Constitutional Amendment (Bill 3) Act into law.
Significant changes are:
The President will now be elected by Parliament, not by direct public vote.
The terms of the President and MPs increase from five to seven years. This transitional provision allows the incumbent President, aged 83, to remain in office until 2030 instead of stepping down in 2028. The law will start working immediately.
The President can appoint 10 more senators, increasing the Senate from 80 to 90 members.
Electoral Authority Changes: Responsibility for voter registration is transferred from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Registrar-General, and a new Delimitation Commission will handle constituency boundaries.
Public interviews for judicial appointments are removed. The long-standing requirement for open, transparent, and public interviews originally established under the 2013 Constitution has been completely scrapped.
A Vice-President acts as President until Parliament elects a replacement within 30 days. Prior to this amendment, previous legal frameworks dictated that if a President died or became incapacitated, the Vice President would automatically step in to finish the remainder of the presidential term.
N.B 35 of the 76 opposition MPs broke ranks to vote with the ruling ZANU-PF party, they voted to extend their term of office by three more years! Where is Africa’s democracy heading?
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