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THE Constitution Defenders Forum (CDF) has accused legislators who backed Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 of putting personal interests ahead of the country’s democratic future after the bill passed in the National Assembly on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The bill will now proceed to Senate after 216 legislators voted in favour of the Bill and 42 opposed it.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the group described the vote as a dark and regrettable moment in Zimbabwe’s democratic history, adding that MPs who supported the Bill had…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THE Constitution Defenders Forum (CDF) has accused legislators who backed Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 of putting personal interests ahead of the country’s democratic future after the bill passed in the National Assembly on Thursday. The bill will now proceed to Senate after 216 legislators voted in favour of the Bill and 42 opposed it. […]<\/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":[258,256,7269,54495,5226,3994,5101,4854,6284,13512,6687,257,9871,34226,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-cab3","tag-chose","tag-constitution","tag-defenders","tag-democracy","tag-forum","tag-legislators","tag-national","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-selfinterest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236913","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=236913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236913\/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=236913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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