{"id":178771,"date":"2024-08-18T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-we-must-bring-swapo-electoral-vote-under-40-percent-venaani\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:17:59","slug":"namibia-we-must-bring-swapo-electoral-vote-under-40-percent-venaani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-we-must-bring-swapo-electoral-vote-under-40-percent-venaani\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;We Must Bring Swapo Electoral Vote Under 40 Percent&#8217; &#8211; Venaani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani says the party&#8217;s goal in the upcoming elections is to reduce Swapo&#8217;s votes to under 40%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Venaani made these remarks at the party&#8217;s trinity congresses of the PDM Youth League, the Women&#8217;s League and the Elders&#8217; Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;In light of these elections, the goal is clear: we must bring the ruling Swapo party&#8217;s share of the electoral vote under 40%. This is an ambitious target and it demands that the PDM be firing on all cylinders,&#8221; Venaani said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408170164.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>Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani says the party&#8217;s goal in the upcoming elections is to reduce Swapo&#8217;s votes to under 40%. Venaani made these remarks at the party&#8217;s trinity congresses of the PDM Youth League, the Women&#8217;s League and the Elders&#8217; Council. &#8220;In light of these elections, the goal is clear: we must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178772,"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":[258,256,7826,7239,4706,724,257,6720,254,1664,23955,8588],"class_list":["post-178771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bring","tag-electoral","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo","tag-venaani","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\/178771","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=178771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}