{"id":182234,"date":"2024-10-10T05:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-election-who-are-the-presidential-candidates\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:31:41","slug":"mozambiques-election-who-are-the-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-election-who-are-the-presidential-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Election &#8211; Who Are the Presidential Candidates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Some 17 million Mozambicans headed to the polls on Wednesday, October 9, to vote in elections that could, for the first time, usher in a president born after the country&#8217;s independence from Portuguese colonists in 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Besides voting for a new president, voters will also choose 250 members of parliament, Provincial governors, and officials in some of the 11 provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Parliamentary and provincial elections in the 11 provinces will be held simultaneously in the country of about 32 million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410090407.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 17 million Mozambicans headed to the polls on Wednesday, October 9, to vote in elections that could, for the first time, usher in a president born after the country&#8217;s independence from Portuguese colonists in 1975. Besides voting for a new president, voters will also choose 250 members of parliament, Provincial governors, and officials in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182235,"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\/00650313:1620e3b04aca6885be00ec0589b85415:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,9085,3119,682,10439,257,6438,254],"class_list":["post-182234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidates","tag-election","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650313:1620e3b04aca6885be00ec0589b85415:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182234","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=182234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}