When Party Claims Supremacy Over the State: A Dangerous Doctrine in Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Order

THE recent assertion by Emmerson Mnangagwa that “the party is supreme over government” is not merely a routine reaffirmation of internal party discipline; it is a profoundly consequential political statement that strikes at the very architecture of Zimbabwe’s constitutional democracy. Delivered in the formal setting of a Politburo session of ZANU-PF, the remark was framed […] The post When Party Claims Supremacy Over the State: A Dangerous Doctrine in Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Order appeared first on The Zimbabwe Mail.


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