Around Africa, elections have become too inconvenient, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
On 7 July, 2026, President Mnangagwa assented to a constitutional amendment “extending the presidential term from five to seven years and abolishing the popular election of the president in favour of selection by parliament, a change that will keep him in office two years beyond the limit previously set by the constitution.
Under the new constitution, the President of the Council of Ministers can hold office indefinitely as long as his party is in power.
It abolished the right of the people to elect their president and extended the unelected tenure of dos Santos as president until a new vote in 2012.
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