{"id":179945,"date":"2024-09-05T04:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-demand-presidential-accountability-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T04:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:42:31","slug":"zambians-demand-presidential-accountability-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-demand-presidential-accountability-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Demand Presidential Accountability &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Majority of citizens say the country&#8217;s law requiring leaders to publicly declare their assets should be strengthened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By overwhelming majorities, Zambians say they prefer democracy to any other form of government (87%) and see their country as &#8220;a full democracy&#8221; or &#8220;a democracy with minor problems&#8221; (80%).<\/li>\n<li>Half (50%) of Zambians believe that the country has become &#8220;more democratic&#8221; over the past five years, and nearly six in 10 (57%) think it will be more democratic than it is today&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040451.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of citizens say the country&#8217;s law requiring leaders to publicly declare their assets should be strengthened. Key findings By overwhelming majorities, Zambians say they prefer democracy to any other form of government (87%) and see their country as &#8220;a full democracy&#8221; or &#8220;a democracy with minor problems&#8221; (80%). Half (50%) of Zambians believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179946,"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":[825],"tags":[13948,258,256,42655,7617,257,6438,254,881,9005],"class_list":["post-179945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-demand","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"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\/179945","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=179945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}