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“I have assumed supreme power in the Kingdom of Swaziland and … all Legislative, Executive and Judicial power is vested in myself.”
Source: Royal Proclamation, 12 April 1973, para. 3
Context Issued a year after the opposition won three parliamentary seats, the decree repealed the 1968 independence constitution, dissolved parliament and banned political parties.
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