Dar es Salaam - Tanzania's main opposition party has called on voters to boycott a constitutional referendum and said it planned legal steps to block the charter that it says the government is pushing through without wide political input.
The Chadema party said the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), in power since Tanzania's independence from Britain in 1961, had ignored its suggestions for reforms in replacing the current constitution, which dates from 1977 when the east African country was under one-party rule.
"We will not participate in the [30 April 30] referendum," Chadema Chairperson Freeman Mbowe told Reuters.