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The Finances Bill seeks to legalise the various tax measures that Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti announced last week while the Appropriation Bill, once passed, gives effect to budget votes allocated to Government ministries and departments.

The two Bills are supposed to sail through both the House of Assembly and Senate before being submitted for Presidential assent.

However, uncertainty shrouds their approval by Senate as MDC-T Senators have vowed to continue boycotting debate if the sitting provincial governors attend sessions.

Members from the Upper House disrupted a recent sitting in protest against the constitutional re-appointment of provincial governors by President Mugabe.

The governors sit in Senate. The House had to be adjourned to February next year because of this disruption.
Analysts hinted yesterday that the President might be forced to dissolve Parliament and proclaim early polls if the Legislature becomes non-functional.

MDC-T Chief Whip Mr Innocent Gonese yesterday said his party would continue boycotting Senate as it did not recognise the provincial governors.