{"id":175337,"date":"2024-06-27T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-politics-landscape-shifts-ahead-of-october-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:22:04","slug":"mozambiques-politics-landscape-shifts-ahead-of-october-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-politics-landscape-shifts-ahead-of-october-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Politics Landscape Shifts Ahead of October Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em><em>Many lawmakers from Mozambique&#8217;s main parties are defecting to a newly-formed coalition ahead of the country&#8217;s October 9 general election. The coalition aims to mobilize protest voters and become a key political force. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/mozambique\/t-68124161\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a>&#8216;s President Filipe Nyusi will not run as a candidate in the Southern African nation&#8217;s election scheduled for October 9. The Mozambican constitution limits the president to two consecutive five-year terms and Nyusi has been in power since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Frelimo &#8212; the ruling party&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406260692.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many lawmakers from Mozambique&#8217;s main parties are defecting to a newly-formed coalition ahead of the country&#8217;s October 9 general election. The coalition aims to mobilize protest voters and become a key political force. Mozambique&#8216;s President Filipe Nyusi will not run as a candidate in the Southern African nation&#8217;s election scheduled for October 9. The Mozambican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175338,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,7019,20883,682,10439,257,11113,6916,5758,254,8588],"class_list":["post-175337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-landscape","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-october","tag-politics","tag-shifts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"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\/175337","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=175337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}