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(HERALD) Zimbabwe draft constitution expected in December

Zimbabwe draft constitution expected in December
Posted by By Our reporter at 1 November, at 08 : 26 AM

THE final draft of Zimbabwe’s new constitution is expected next month. The team drafting the constitution, Copac, said that the final phase of the drafting process will start next month.

Copac co-chairperson Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana said on Monday that the document would be put to a referendum early next year, paving the way for harmonised elections. Mangwana was speaking on the sidelines of a pre-drafting workshop for the new constitution held at the eastern town of Great Zimbabwe.

“We will soon start the drafting of the new supreme law of the land that should take us at most two weeks and we are quite on schedule to complete the writing of the new constitution before the end of this year,” he said.

“We are very optimistic that we will be able to give the people of Zimbabwe a Christmas present in the form of a draft constitution, which we are quite sure will be through before Christmas and that will pave way for a referendum early next year,” said Cde Mangwana.

The team has face financial challenges and disputes among the three main political parties, Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC involved in the writing of the new constitution, have marred the process.

“After we complete the drafting of the new constitution, we will then move on to the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference and we are happy that we have already secured funding for the drafting stage, but we are still to get funding for the Second All Stakeholders Conference,” he said.

Mangwana said Copac required a further US$4.6 million from Government to hold the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference.

Labels: CONSTITUTION, COPAC

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