The ruling party in Tanzania has dismissed growing calls from its MPs for President John Magufuli to extend his term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 61-year-old president, who won elections in October, is currently serving his second and final five-year term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humphrey Polepole, the CCM party\u2019s publicity secretary, has told parliament that Mr Magufuli has no intentions of remaining in power beyond his current constitutional mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some ruling party MPs have been proposing the constitution be changed to allow for a third term for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPresident Magufuli is not harbouring intentions to remain in power,” said Mr Polepole, who is also an MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a closed matter at party level… however, I\u2019m not in a position to prevent MPs from airing out their views in parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was forced to speak after an opposition MP asked if the ruling party was endorsing the calls for a presidential term limit extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his first term in office, Mr Magufuli had dismissed such proposals, saying: \u201cI will not extend my [presidential] limit even by a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The ruling party in Tanzania has dismissed growing calls from its MPs for President John Magufuli to extend his term in office. The 61-year-old president, who won elections in October, is currently serving his second and final five-year term in office. Humphrey Polepole, the CCM party\u2019s publicity secretary, has told parliament that Mr Magufuli has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":19635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98,99],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-21471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n