The bid to raise the presidential candidates age limit to 52 years has failed at the Zanu PF conference. War Vets and the Women’s Leag...
The bid to raise the presidential candidates age limit to
52 years has failed at the Zanu PF conference.
War Vets and the Women’s League had pushed for the
resolution to be adopted. However, the ruling party’s final resolutions
presented by Zanu PF chairperson of the documentation and legal committee,
Jacob Mudenda, were silent on the proposal to amend the constitution.
Mnangagwa also did not refer to the proposal in his closing
remarks yesterday where he spoke about modernising Zanu PF and nurturing
democracy in Zimbabwe.
“Conference resolves that the party should complete its
restructuring exercise from the cell right through to the provinces in 2019.
Those structures should then vigorously start campaigning for the party
immediately in preparation for the 2023 harmonised elections,” Mudenda said.
Zanu PF also resolved that the controversial national youth
service programme initiated by its late political commissar, Border Gezi,
should be revived by the end of March next year.
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