Zimbabwe sets team to drive constitutional reforms
* Parliamentary team set up to lead constitution drafting
* Analysts say team sign power-sharing agreement will last
* Tensions flare again over replacement of MDC minister
By Cris Chinaka
HARARE, April 12 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe set up a parliamentary team on Sunday to spearhead the writing of a new constitution which President Robert Mugabe's opponents say will be key to holding free and fair elections.
Critics say Mugabe, 85 and in power since independence from Britain in 1980, has used tough security and media laws to stifle opposition to his ZANU-PF party, and has rigged polls in the last 10 years to remain in office.
On Sunday, Zimbabwe's Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo announced that a new unity government, which Mugabe formed with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in February to try to break a post-election crisis, had assembled a 25-member parliamentary committee to lead the process of writing a new constitution.
The process would include consultations around the country, and the new constitution would have to be approved by a national referendum to be held by mid July next year, Moyo said. Continued...
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