{"id":182866,"date":"2024-10-19T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fake-observer-caught-bribing-opposition-monitor-to-ignore-frelimo-ballot-box-stuffing\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:53:14","slug":"mozambique-fake-observer-caught-bribing-opposition-monitor-to-ignore-frelimo-ballot-box-stuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fake-observer-caught-bribing-opposition-monitor-to-ignore-frelimo-ballot-box-stuffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Fake Observer Caught Bribing Opposition Monitor To Ignore Frelimo Ballot Box Stuffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Several thousand Frelimo party activists have been accredited as observers, in order to stuff ballot boxes. One was trapped and caught dramatically in a Maganja da Costa, Zamb\u00e9zia, Secondary School polling station, as he bribed a Podemos polling station monitor with 50,000 meticais ($780) to allow him to stuff the ballot boxes in favour of Frelimo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">Ad\u00e9rito dos Santos Macie was an observer for the National Youth Council (CNJ), accredited by the Zamb\u00e9zia Provincial Elections Commission (CPE). The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170290.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>Several thousand Frelimo party activists have been accredited as observers, in order to stuff ballot boxes. One was trapped and caught dramatically in a Maganja da Costa, Zamb\u00e9zia, Secondary School polling station, as he bribed a Podemos polling station monitor with 50,000 meticais ($780) to allow him to stuff the ballot boxes in favour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182867,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,9240,34154,4757,6646,6891,1573,13180,12386,4704,682,257,8458,5675,254,46960],"class_list":["post-182866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-box","tag-bribing","tag-caught","tag-fake","tag-frelimo","tag-ignore","tag-monitor","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-observer","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stuffing"],"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\/182866","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=182866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}