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MPs could be fired for wayward behaviour

Members of Parliament PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Members of Parliament PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

If all the proposed amendments of the 2024 draft Constitution amendment bill go through, Members of Parliament (MPs) could approve a law which have them fired from the National Assembly.

Currently, Parliament does not have the power to remove a sitting MP from office.

State President Minister Kabo Morwaeng presented the Constitution (amendment) bill, 2024 for a second reading this week, and in the draft bill, there is a proposal to have section 68 of the Constitution to be amended by inserting immediately after subsection one a new subsection which says that legislators will be fired for misbehaviour.

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