{"id":15696,"date":"2016-01-05T01:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=15696"},"modified":"2016-01-05T01:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:50:52","slug":"zambia-goes-to-polls-on-11-august-under-a-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/05\/zambia-goes-to-polls-on-11-august-under-a-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia goes to polls on 11 August, under a new constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 11 August under a new constitution, a government spokesman said, Reuters news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new constitution has a fixed election date and that will take effect as soon as the president signs,&#8221; Amos Chanda said.<\/p>\n<p>President Edgar Lungu is expected to sign the constitutional amendments into law on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The elections are expected to be tight contest between Mr Lungu&#8217;s governing Patriotic Front (PF) party and Hakainde Hichilema&#8217;s opposition United Party for National Development (UPND).<\/p>\n<p>Other amendments include a clause requiring a winning presidential candidate to get more than 50% of the votes cast, Mr Chanda said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lungu took office a year ago in elections held after the death of then-President Michael Sata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 11 August under a new constitution, a government spokesman said, Reuters news agency reports. &#8220;The new constitution has a fixed election date and that will take effect as soon as the president signs,&#8221; Amos Chanda said. President Edgar Lungu is expected to sign the constitutional amendments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}