{"id":181678,"date":"2024-10-02T05:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-electoral-law-prohibits-food-bribery-political-parties-clash-over-enforcement-ahead-of-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T05:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:12:34","slug":"namibia-electoral-law-prohibits-food-bribery-political-parties-clash-over-enforcement-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-electoral-law-prohibits-food-bribery-political-parties-clash-over-enforcement-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Electoral Law Prohibits Food Bribery &#8211; Political Parties Clash Over Enforcement Ahead of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Political parties are disagreeing over an electoral law that prohibits them from dishing out food to potential voters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Some parties support the law while others say it&#8217;s unrealistic and should be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Electoral Act of 2014 says a person who gives or accepts food in exchange for a vote commits an offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">If convicted, such a person can be fined N$20 000 or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The law states that anyone who gives or provides food, drinks, entertainment or&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409300797.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>Political parties are disagreeing over an electoral law that prohibits them from dishing out food to potential voters. Some parties support the law while others say it&#8217;s unrealistic and should be reviewed. The Electoral Act of 2014 says a person who gives or accepts food in exchange for a vote commits an offence. If convicted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181679,"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":[258,256,7019,7673,7647,821,7239,10019,5074,7077,4706,724,257,6744,6378,23025,254],"class_list":["post-181678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-bribery","tag-clash","tag-elections","tag-electoral","tag-enforcement","tag-food","tag-law","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parties","tag-political","tag-prohibits","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\/181678","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=181678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}