{"id":179896,"date":"2024-09-04T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-to-hold-elections-october-30-as-president-masisi-seeks-2nd-term\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:37:45","slug":"botswana-to-hold-elections-october-30-as-president-masisi-seeks-2nd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-to-hold-elections-october-30-as-president-masisi-seeks-2nd-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana to Hold Elections October 30 As President Masisi Seeks 2nd Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 Botswana, Africa&#8217;s longest democracy, will hold its general election on October 30, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced Tuesday. Masisi will seek a second and final term after his ruling party endorsed his candidacy over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a public address, Masisi said Botswana will continue with its long-standing principle of holding regular elections. Masisi&#8217;s ruling Botswana Democratic Party has been in power since independence from Britain in 1966.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">&#8220;The constitution of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 Botswana, Africa&#8217;s longest democracy, will hold its general election on October 30, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced Tuesday. Masisi will seek a second and final term after his ruling party endorsed his candidacy over the weekend. In a public address, Masisi said Botswana will continue with its long-standing principle of holding regular elections. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631442:d8312bfa7404befb19db19490d748351:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7577,258,256,4718,2462,821,7204,11660,257,11113,2450,8111,254,7557],"class_list":["post-179896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-2nd","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-elections","tag-hold","tag-masisi","tag-news","tag-october","tag-president","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631442:d8312bfa7404befb19db19490d748351:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179896","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=179896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}