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Zambian lawmakers approved amendments to the country’s constitution on Monday, reshaping the composition of parliament less than a year before national elections scheduled for August 2026.<\/p>\n
Members of parliament passed the Constitution Amendment Bill 2025, known as Bill No. 7, by a vote of 131 to 2, surpassing the two-thirds majority required for constitutional changes. Proceedings were broadcast from the capital, Lusaka.<\/p>\n
The bill increases the number of elected parliamentary seats and introduces…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambian lawmakers approved amendments to the country’s constitution on Monday, reshaping the composition of parliament less than a year before national elections scheduled for August 2026. Members of parliament passed the Constitution Amendment Bill 2025, known as Bill No. 7, by a vote of 131 to 2, surpassing the two-thirds majority required for constitutional changes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7019,10880,9729,14377,257,254,8588,4709,881],"class_list":["post-217114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-approve","tag-constitutional","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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