constituteproject.org PDF generated: 26 Sep 2013, 21:49 14 Special provision for election and tenure of first President and appointment of Vice-Presidents (1) Notwithstanding section 92, in the first election and any presidential election within ten years after the first election, candidates for election as President do not nominate persons in terms of that section to stand for election as Vice-Presidents. (2) Without delay the person elected as President in any election referred to in subparagraph (1) must appoint not more than two Vice-Presidents, who hold office at his or her pleasure. (3) Where-(a) one Vice-President is appointed in terms of subparagraph (2), that person is the first Vice-President for the purposes of this Constitution; (b) two Vice-Presidents are appointed in terms of subparagraph (2), the President may from time to time nominate one of them to act as President whenever he or she is absent from Zimbabwe or is unable exercise his or her official functions through illness or any other cause. (4) Notwithstanding section 101 but subject to subparagraphs (5) and (6), if the person elected President in any election referred to in subparagraph (1) dies, resigns or is removed from office-(a) the Vice-President or, where there are two Vice-Presidents, the Vice-President who was last nominated to act in terms of subparagraph (3)(b), acts as President until a new President assumes office in terms of subparagraph (5); and (b) the vacancy in the office of President must be filled by a nominee of the political party which the President represented when he or she stood for election. (5) A political party which is entitled to nominate a person in terms of subparagraph (4)(b) must notify the Speaker of the nominee's name within ninety days after the vacancy occurred in the office of President, and thereupon the nominee assumes office as President after taking the oath of President in terms of section 94, which oath the nominee must take within forty-eight hours after the Speaker was notified of his or her name. (6) In the event of the death, resignation or removal from office of a person who is elected president in an election referred to in subparagraph (1) and who did not represent a political party when he or she stood for election, the Vice-President or, if there are two Vice-Presidents, the Vice-President who was last nominated to act in terms of subparagraph (3)(b), assumes office as President. 15 Continuation of certain Executive offices Notwithstanding any provision of the former Constitution, the following offices which existed on publication day in terms of Schedule 8 to the former Constitution, namely-(a) President and Vice-President; (b) Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister; and (c) Minister and Deputy Minister; continue in existence until the effective date when the first President assumes office under this Constitution, and the persons who held those offices remain in them accordingly. Zimbabwe 2013 Page 163