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BDP’s 40/60 Cabinet proposal: Progress or Malice?

Friday, July 29, 2022 | 2190 Views |

While the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) submission does not speak to direct election of the President, the party wants the president to himself pick his Cabinet from both within and outside Parliament.

The move has received mixed reactions with some quarters calling for it to be precedent by direct election of the President.

The BDP submitted a proposal before the presidential constitutional review commission seeking that the President be given the power to choose 40% of Cabinet ministers from outside the National Assembly and 60% from within Parliament.

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