Constitutional sticking points must remain

THE ruling Zanu PF party’s admission that it has returned to the drawing board over its controversial plan to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office should be welcomed — not as a tactical retreat, but as a constitutional dead-end that must remain firmly in place.

After promising to gazette draft constitutional amendments before December 31, the party failed to do so.

This delay is not procedural; it is political.

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