{"id":15410,"date":"2019-10-31T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2019-10-31T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:08:50","slug":"chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa To Resist ED\u2019s Plans To Amend Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will resist President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cselfish\u201d move to amend some constitutional provisions.<\/p>\n<p>An MDC Senator and former Constitution Select Committee of Parliament (Copac) co-chair and now deputy secretary for international relations, Douglas Mwonzora, said:<\/p>\n<p>The resolution by the Zimbabwean Cabinet to initiate key amendments to the Constitution represents a long march backwards.<\/p>\n<p>The current Constitution represents an incremental gain in Zimbabwe\u2019s democratisation agenda. We have to resist these selfish amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ziyambiz?lang=en\">Ziyambi Ziyambi<\/a> announced recently that cabinet had resolved to remove the running mate clause saying it created two centres of power in the Executive and was a borrowed concept from America after all.<\/p>\n<p>Under the running mate clause, a presidential candidate chooses a Vice-President before elections and in the event that the President fails to complete his term for any reason that Vice-President automatically becomes President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will resist President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cselfish\u201d move to amend some constitutional provisions. An MDC Senator and former Constitution Select Committee of Parliament (Copac) co-chair and now deputy secretary for international relations, Douglas Mwonzora, said: The resolution by the Zimbabwean Cabinet to initiate key amendments to the Constitution represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[113,88,457],"class_list":{"0":"post-15410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-policy","10":"tag-chamisa","11":"tag-mdc","12":"tag-ziyambi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chamisa To Resist ED\u2019s Plans To Amend Constitution - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will resist President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cselfish\u201d move to amend some constitutional provisions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chamisa To Resist ED\u2019s Plans To Amend Constitution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will resist President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cselfish\u201d move to amend some constitutional provisions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-31T15:08:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/nelson-chamisa2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"365\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-to-resist-eds-plans-to-amend-constitution\",\"name\":\"Chamisa To Resist ED\u2019s Plans To Amend Constitution - 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