CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer Makebi Zulu has said that there has been ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’ and ‘no information’ with regards to interpretation of the constitution on whether a person can be barred from contesting an election if they have been sworn in twice or been elected twice.He said the two arguments with regards to ‘elected twice’ and sworn in twice’ are not provided for in the current Republican constitution and therefore could not be used as theories to bar President Edgar Lungu from contesting this year’s election.He said the question that arises as to whether a person has been sworn in twice is tied to the question of whether it was a term or not.“Article 106 does constitute what a term is, and states that a term is 5 years and anything less than that is not a term. It defines what holding of office is, it defines what a term is,” Mr Zulu said.He added: “And for […]
‘THERE HAS BEEN MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION ON LUNGU’S ELIGIBILITY’
