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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:08 PM
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Zimbabwe passes 2008 election law
Source: BBC News

Zimbabwe's parliament has passed a compromise bill on constitutional change that will allow presidential and parliamentary elections in 2008.

Members of parliament from both the ruling Zanu-PF and the fractured opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supported the bill.

All 111 MPs present voted in favour of the bill to amend the constitution.

The bill, the result of talks led by South Africa, allows parliament to pick President Robert Mugabe's successor.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7005188.stm
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