“A person is disqualified for election as President if he or she has already held office for one or more periods, whether continuous or not, amounting to 10 years,” according to the draft seen by Reuters.
Douglas Mwonzora, a co-chairman of the parliamentary committee driving the constitutional reforms representing Tsvangirai’s MDC party, said the draft was the first of several that would be produced before the referendum.
The state-owned Herald newspaper, whose views often echo those of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, denounced the proposal.
“The draft is personalised to attack President Mugabe. Here is a constitution being drafted…to disqualify the leader of one of the parties,” it quoted an unnamed source as saying.
A referendum on the new constitution is expected to be held later this year.