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Madhuku Calls For By-Election Or Electoral College To Choose President's Successor

4 years agoSat, 22 Feb 2020 09:27:45 GMT
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Madhuku Calls For By-Election Or Electoral College To Choose President's Successor

National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader, Lovemore Madhuku said that a constitutional clause that allows a sitting president’s party to appoint his or her successor in the event of incapacitation or impeachment should be scrapped.

Madhuku made the remarks at a Heal Zimbabwe Trust organised a public discussion on the contentious Constitutional Amendment No. 2 which seeks to do away with the Running Mate clause. Said Madhuku:

We must never put in the constitution of Zimbabwe that if a sitting president dies or resigns, we will wait to hear what the political party of that president is saying. No, that is not the best way to run a country.

A country is run on the basis of either an election or you have parliament aided institutions sitting as an electoral college…but never to allow a political party to sit there and say we are giving you a president.

In November 2017 President Emmerson Mnangagwa was brought back from self-imposed exile by the ruling ZANU PF party after he had fled the country following his sacking as Vice President by the then President Robert Mugabe.

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Mnangagwa, who had been fired from the party, was only able to return to Zimbabwe after the military launched a coup and forced Mugabe to resign.

More: NewZimbabwe.com

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