Zambia's 'ill-conceived' constitution rejected?

As a results Zambia's 2011 tripartite elections will be held under the current constitution and not as was widely expected under the new one, which was ready, and only awaited enactment. But enactment failed and in the preliminary stages for that matter.

It was tabled in the National Assembly on March 29. But the same day at second reading stage, the government failed to muster the mandatory two-thirds majority required at every voting stage in constitutional amendments.