Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF moves to delay congress – Mnangagwa could rule until 2030
The ruling party is advancing a resolution to move its elective congress from 2027 to 2029. MPs who missed sittings on a constitutional amendment are to face discipline.
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In Zimbabwe, the ruling Zanu-PF party is pushing ahead with plans that could keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in power for longer. At its annual conference in Chinhoyi, a resolution was advanced to postpone the party's next elective congress from 2027 to 2029, according to the news portal allAfrica. That could keep Mnangagwa in office until 2030. Provincial party leaders at the conference defended resolutions backing his continued leadership.
At the same conference, the party's legal secretary Ziyambi Ziyambi announced disciplinary action against MPs who missed parliamentary sittings on the Constitutional Amendment No. 3 Bill. Several senior officials and deputy ministers are among those who did not vote, according to allAfrica. Why they stayed away from the sittings is unclear. The report names no individuals and gives no details of the vote's outcome.