Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister
Monica Mutsvangwa has been appointed the leader of Government business in the
Senate by President Mnangagwa.
She replaces national hero and former Lands, Agriculture,
Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri who died in June.
The announcement of her appointment was made by Senate
President Mable Chinomona before start of business yesterday.
According to Parliament’s website the authority of the
Leader of Government Business is incorporated in the Standing Orders, which are
rules governing the procedures of Parliament.
“The leader arranges the business of the house and also
protects and defines the position of the Government. The Leader of Government
Business in either case obtains approval from the President of the Senate or
Speaker of the House of Assembly for any Minister who may wish to make a
Ministerial Statement” reads part of a statement.
The Leaders of Government Business have a huge voice in the
entire legislative process and they help determine the scope and content of the
legislative programme for the session as well as the business of the week.
Meanwhile, Senators yesterday commended Government’s
ongoing efforts to re-align the country’s laws with the new Constitution.
Senators said this during the Second Reading debate of the
Attorney-General’s Amendment Bill that was eventually passed and now awaits the
President’s signature.
Apart from that Bill, the Senate also passed the National
Prosecuting Authority Amendment Bill and the Finance Bill which also now await
the President’s assent.
Contributing to the debate, MDC-T Senator Morgan Komichi
thanked Government for re-aligning the laws.
“I want to thank the minister for his efforts in alignment
of the laws and it was our wish that more laws should be brought to Parliament
for alignment to the Constitution in line with what the people said in the
process of producing it,” he said.
Senator Tichinani Mavetera said the alignment of the laws
was also a fulfilment of what President Mnangagwa proposed during the official
opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament last year. Herald
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