Swaziland's Attorney-General Majahenkhaba Dlamini has said that the Government decided not to follow the constitution when it succeeded in having a no-confidence vote against it overturned.
Dlamini who supports the government action said that although the preamble to the Swazi constitution states, 'Whereas all the branches of government are the Guardians of the Constitution, it is necessary that the courts be the ultimate Interpreters of the Constitution,' the government decided not to go to court but simply to demand a re-run of the vote.
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