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Dear friend,
>
> Re: INVITATION TO A CONFERENCE ON THE PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION
>
> The Citizens Forum cordially invites you to a National Conference on the
> People's Constitution. The Conference is one of the efforts aimed at defending
> the People will in the constitution making process as expressed in the Mung'omba
> CRC report/draft constitution. It will take place on Saturday 12 March 2011 at
> the Mulungushi International Conference Centre, from 10 hours to 13 hours.
>
> The National Constitutional Conference (NCC) that was entrusted to adopt the
> Mung'omba draft constitution threw out and/or deferred most of the pertinent
> provisions that should promote and strengthen multi-party democracy and has
> maintained the provisions in the current constitution which are only appropriate
> for a one party governance system. The implications of what the NCC has done is
> that there will be another constitution review process, and again at great cost.
> However, this can be avoided if the people of Zambia resolve to declare the
> Mung'omba draft constitution as The People's Draft Constitution which should be
> enacted into a new constitution. A vigorous sustainable campaign should then
> follow the declaration until the people of Zambia give themselves a constitution
> that they have always wanted since the country reverted to multi-party democracy
> in 1991. In addition to declaring the Mung'omba draft constitution as The
> People's Draft Constitution, the Conference will also look at what
> constitutional issues should be addressed before the country holds the 2011
> presidential and general elections, such as the issue of an independent
> electoral commission, the 50%+1 winning threshold, the provision of swearing-in
> the president-elect, and the provision to have a vice president elected as a
> running mate.
>
> As this is an open invitation, we kindly request you to extend this invitation
> to many other people. We look forward to your active participation in this noble
> cause.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
>
>
> Simon Kabanda
> EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
>
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