Zimbabwe president’s party rejects new draft

Published August 7, 2012 1:11pm ET



HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party won’t accept a new draft constitution without amendments to reforms seen as undermining its traditional powers, state media reported Tuesday.

Spokesman Rugare Gumbo said the draft was unacceptable in its present form and “we cannot commit ourselves to positions which are untenable,’ according to The Herald newspaper, which is controlled by Mugabe loyalists.

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