{"id":5692,"date":"2023-05-31T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnewsworld.com\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2023-05-31T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:48:24","slug":"c-africa-president-calls-referendum-on-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnewsworld.com\/fi\/c-africa-president-calls-referendum-on-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"C.Africa president calls referendum on new constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column js-responsive-iframes-container\">\n<p>President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic said Tuesday that he would call a referendum on a new constitution that would allow him to seek a new term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have decided&#8230; to submit this project for a new constitution to a referendum,&#8221; he said in an address to the nation posted on Facebook, without saying when the vote would take place.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera&#8217;s opponents have already accused him of seeking to extend his rule despite constitutional limits.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera was elected in 2016 and was returned for a second term in 2020, despite widespread accusations of electoral flaws.<\/p>\n<p>In October, he removed the country&#8217;s top judge, Daniele Darlan, in what critics denounced as a &#8220;constitutional coup d&#8217;etat&#8221; 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