MDC-T senators walkout of Parliament

About 20 MDC-T senators yesterday walked out of Parliament yesterday in protest against the speed at which the Electoral Amendments Bill was sailing through different stages without incorporating their proposed changes.

The Bill entered its Second Reading Stage yesterday after Justice and Legal Affairs deputy minister Fortune Chasi brought it to the Senate for alignment in the new Constitution.

The Bill is expected to sail through Third Reading Stage today.

Midlands Senator Morgan Komichi said it was useless to stay because all issues that they were proposing are not being taken seriously by the minister. 

Cabinet is under pressure to amend the Electoral Amendment Bill as President Robert Mugabe's presidential decree on the amendments last year is expiring after its six-month constitutional limit.

Government now has to align the electoral amendments to the new constitution through parliament which officially opens its 2014 session on January 21st.

Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have completed analyzing the bill to be presented in parliament.