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After being sworn in on the January 25, He has held the office of president after taking over from Guy Scott who was acting president after the passing of 5th republican president Micheal Chiluyfa Sata. So Far His presidency has been criticised with the depreciating kwacha and his drinking problem.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}}.However these economic challenges, in particular the depreciating kwacha, have been attributed to the global fall of and depressed commodity prices. Zambia derives over 90% of its export earnings from one commodity: COPPER which has lost about 45% of its value on the international commodity market. Numerous individuals and media have repeatedly failed to prove his drinking problem as his health has improved dramatically since his collapse in his early days as president. On 5 January 2016, Edgar Chagwa Lungu became the first president in Zambia's history to successfully conclude the constitutional issue as proposed by the Zambian people when he assented  to the 2015 Constitutional Amendment Bill. This Bill is a result of extensive work which started during the Mwanawasa era (The Mwanakatwe Commission) and was later polished by the Michael Chilufya Sata appointed Technical Committee (the Mwanawasa Constitutional Review Commission was rejected by parliament). As Justice Minister, Edgar Chagwa Lungu released the Draft Constitution in a short period of time and was presented to parliament and it was later decided that non-contentious issues will be debated in parliament while the continuous issues will be  subjected to a referendum. He has followed this up, as president, by successfully finalising the long-standing Constitutional issue.

The [[Supreme Court]] is the highest court and the court of appeal; below it are the high [[court]], magistrate's court, and local courts.