CHAPTER One Foundation has submitted to the Technical Committee on Constitution Amendments that the country should not do away with by-elections to ensure that citizens are free to exercise their political will. The Foundation has also proposed that the nomination of MPs should be abolished as it undermines the country’s constitutional democracy by strengthening the Executive’s influence in the National Assembly. Speaking when he made a submission on Bill 7, Wednesday, the organisation’s Executive Director Josiah Kalala further proposed that Cabinet ministers should be drawn from outside Parliament. “On by-elections, we recommend that by-elections be maintained as a way to give effect to Article 45, which provides that the electoral system shall ensure that citizens are free to exercise their...