{"id":178249,"date":"2024-08-10T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mdm-occupies-first-place-on-ballot-paper\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T01:05:07","slug":"mozambique-mdm-occupies-first-place-on-ballot-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mdm-occupies-first-place-on-ballot-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: MDM Occupies First Place On Ballot Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the second largest opposition party in the country, is in first place on the ballot paper for the parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 9 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The draw for places on the ballot paper, held by the National Elections Commission (CNE), put the ruling Frelimo party in second position, and Renamo, the largest opposition party, in third position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The three parties occupy the top three positions because they are the only forces&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080603.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>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the second largest opposition party in the country, is in first place on the ballot paper for the parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 9 October. The draw for places on the ballot paper, held by the National Elections Commission (CNE), put the ruling Frelimo party in second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178250,"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":[258,256,9240,10372,4704,682,257,32557,11889,8673,254],"class_list":["post-178249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-mdm","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-occupies","tag-paper","tag-place","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\/178249","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=178249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}