HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s parliament Wednesday began discussing a new constitution that reduces some of the president’s powers, demands political impartiality from his longtime loyalists in the police and military and paves the way for a peace and reconciliation commission to investigate a decade of human rights and electoral abuses.

The 160-page draft, completed after three years of bickering between hardliners and reformists during often bitter and violent nationwide canvassing, will be voted on in a national referendum slated for April, ahead of elections to end a shaky coalition formed after the last disputed, violent polls in 2008.

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