{"id":173883,"date":"2024-06-05T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-scoffs-at-mudges-coalition-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:29:12","slug":"namibia-opposition-scoffs-at-mudges-coalition-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-scoffs-at-mudges-coalition-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Opposition Scoffs At Mudge&#8217;s Coalition Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Opposition parties have dismissed calls by Republican Party leader Henk Mudge to form a coalition for the upcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections to topple Swapo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">He suggested this during a recent discussion among presidential candidates, held in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The veteran politician said the best bet to oust the current government is forming a coalition among opposition parties to win a majority in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;The opposition cannot have its candidate become president if we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406040556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have dismissed calls by Republican Party leader Henk Mudge to form a coalition for the upcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections to topple Swapo. He suggested this during a recent discussion among presidential candidates, held in Windhoek. The veteran politician said the best bet to oust the current government is forming a coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":173884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5780,7421,48699,4706,724,257,5675,11826,254],"class_list":["post-173883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coalition","tag-dream","tag-mudges","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-scoffs","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}