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Zambia’s increasingly authoritarian president has spuriously warned that elections could be delayed for 8-9 years unless the constitution is amended.<\/p>\n
As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia<\/a> made his annual address<\/a> to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constitutional reform.<\/p>\n “The country has failed to reach consensus on this very important national document over many years. As a country, therefore, we still…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambia’s increasingly authoritarian president has spuriously warned that elections could be delayed for 8-9 years unless the constitution is amended. As President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia made his annual address to parliament on 13 September, he shocked many observers as he made a series of revealing off-the-cuff remarks on the topic of constitutional reform. “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601564:c0d5ed90a2efef9646b3c163be823ed9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7796,3994,14065,6976,8646,257,254,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-180868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-constitution","tag-gears","tag-hichilema","tag-joke","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601564:c0d5ed90a2efef9646b3c163be823ed9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180868","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=180868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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