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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87257, member: 27"]
Longer terms and indirect presidential elections are being pitched as the fix for Africa’s stalled growth, with China held up as the blueprint.

Term extension pitch from ZANU PF
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[*]Patrick Chinamasa, ZANU-PF Treasurer General, blamed Africa’s setbacks on constant government turnover.
[*]Chinamasa backed extending presidential and parliamentary terms from five to seven years.
[*]Constitutional Amendment No. 3 Bill 2026 carries that proposal.
[*]His argument centers on long-run policy rollout instead of stop-and-reset cycles.
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China model held up as a template
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[*]The People’s Republic of China was cited as the example to copy.
[*]Under the Communist Party of China, power sits within party leadership.
[*]Chinamasa pointed to China’s shift from agrarian poverty to industrial heavyweight status.
[*]He framed that trajectory as proof that steady rule delivers results.
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Indirect presidential election proposal
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[*]Another plank would shift presidential selection to Parliament.
[*]Universal suffrage, in his view, drains resources and stirs political tension.
[*]Chinamasa warned that a directly elected President could lack majority backing in Parliament.
[*]That mismatch, he argued, risks a weakened head of state struggling to govern.
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