adminDraft Constitution: MDCs cannot ignore Zanu-PF’s amendments
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
THE two MDC formations will have to consider proposed amendments to the draft constitution
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Draft Constitution: Moving a social substratum
Zanu-PF has just completed its review of the Copac constitutional draft. Already, this exercise has raised acute anxieties in the two MDC formations; something good political players must always do to their adversaries.
You do not transfer comfort to your opponents, do you? Nor do you make yourself readable, as has just been done by the two formations by publicly declaring their love for the Copac draft so early in the whole process.
It has turned out to be deep love, very deep love that ungainly betrays the formations’ political inflections both in the draft and in the whole political and electoral process. And considering that the two formations view the constitution-making process as the juridical phase in their quest for power, it must be pretty obvious to Zanu-PF what the formations’ electoral planks are or should be.
With the acute anxiety exhibited by the formations to have the draft steam-rolled, this should not be very difficult. Which by the way greatly
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For Ben was supposed to be different.