Bolstered UDC dreams of curbing President�s powers

According to the executive summary of the party’s Social Democratic Programme, the new Government would immediately set about reviewing the Constitution with a view to guaranteeing separation of powers, thereby reducing the powers of the President. On issues of governance, the UDC - a coalition of four parties – the Botswana National Front, the Botswana Movement for Democracy, the Botswana Peoples Party and the new member, Botswana Congress Party, will entrench social, economic and cultural rights through the Constitution. 

The document states that the UDC will promote the independence of the Judiciary by ensuring that it is compliant with the international bar association minimum of standards of Judicial independence. Moreover, it will entrench the independence and authority of the Judiciary by ensuring that the Independent Electoral Commission, Auditor General, Public Protector, the DCEC, and others would account to Parliament.