{"id":223548,"date":"2026-02-12T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-to-choose-the-president-under-new-2026-constitution-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:27:09","slug":"zimbabwe-parliament-to-choose-the-president-under-new-2026-constitution-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-to-choose-the-president-under-new-2026-constitution-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Parliament to Choose the President Under New 2026 Constitution Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cabinet has approved the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill of 2026, a sweeping reform package that would reshape the country&#8217;s political system, electoral processes and key state institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking during a post Cabinet Press briefing, Information Minister Jenfan Muswere said the Bill was designed to &#8220;strengthen constitutional governance, clarify institutional rules, promote socio-economic and political stability and enhance the efficiency of the state architecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;This Bill forms&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110374.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill of 2026, a sweeping reform package that would reshape the country&#8217;s political system, electoral processes and key state institutions. Speaking during a post Cabinet Press briefing, Information Minister Jenfan Muswere said the Bill was designed to &#8220;strengthen constitutional governance, clarify institutional rules, promote socio-economic and political stability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,17602,3994,257,2412,7586,2450,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-choose","tag-constitution","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-plan","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223548","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=223548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}