The amendment ensures that the election of the speaker and the endorsement of the president’s choice of Vice President are made by secret ballot instead of by show of hand. The amendment takes away the president, and parliamentary caucuses’ power to enforce collective decisions on the vote for parliament speaker and endorsement of Vice President. President Khama has kept his preferred vice president a secret and was hoping to coerce party members into endorsing his choice and that of house speaker
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:24:11 +0000
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