determinant of the importance of an issue enough to find its way into the Draft Constitution that has been produced. 16. Preparatory work for drafting Some of the issues that were raised during the outreach programme were not necessarily constitutional. The Select Committee then undertook an exercise of extracting constitutional issues from the National Statistical Reports. In this regard COPAC engaged 17 legal experts (5 per political party and 2 representatives of Chiefs). The Select Committee met at various locations which include Pandhari, Masvingo, Vumba and Bulawayo and engaged in the following processes: 1) The extraction of Constitutional issues, all of them, as derived from the outreach process. These are contained in a document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ which is also attached for the information of this Honourable House. 2) The second exercise was to extract, from the list of constitutional issues, the list of Agreed Constitutional issues that would actually go into the constitution These are also contained in the document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ noted above. 3) The Select Committee also developed 26 Constitutional Principles from the National Statistical Report to guide the drafting process. These are also contained in the document entitled ‘Drafting Instruments’ noted above. 4) There were gaps in the information that was collected during the outreach programme. In some instances technical questions were not addressed. People answered the question “what”, and did not address the question of “how” they wanted the issues to be effected in the constitution. The Select Committee with the assistance of technical experts then conducted a process of identifying and filling the gaps and produced an agreed Document on Gap Filling. Some of the gaps identified were in respect of the following areas: 17 • Qualifications of judges • Removal of judges from office • Who can declare a state of emergency • Acquisition, loss and restoration of citizenship • Powers of the Senate and the House of Assembly • Election of President of the Senate • Election of Speaker of the House of Assembly • General matters relating to parliament The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) Report to Parliament, February 2013