Zimbabwe: Clause Locking Mugabe Out of Polls Scrapped

23 February 2012

Harare — A parliamentary committee leading Zimbabwe's constitution making has been forced to drop a number of provisions, including one that would have locked President Robert Mugabe out of future polls.

A representative of Mugabe's Zanu PF party in the Constitution Select Committee, Paul Munyaradzi Mangwana, said they had made a raft of changes to the draft supreme law.

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