{"id":183629,"date":"2024-10-31T01:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-majority-bloc-desperate-for-legitimacy\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:07:15","slug":"liberia-majority-bloc-desperate-for-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-majority-bloc-desperate-for-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Majority Bloc&#8217; Desperate for Legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"91\">In a bid to legitimize their efforts to unseat Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, the majority bloc of the House of Representatives has made a desperate appeal to Deputy Speaker Thomas P. Fallah, the representative of Lofa County Electoral District #1, to preside over a separate session convened by the bloc. The letters exchanged between the majority bloc and Fallah reveal the frantic efforts of the bloc to establish legitimacy in their campaign to remove Speaker Koffa, despite clear constitutional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410300412.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to legitimize their efforts to unseat Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, the majority bloc of the House of Representatives has made a desperate appeal to Deputy Speaker Thomas P. Fallah, the representative of Lofa County Electoral District #1, to preside over a separate session convened by the bloc. The letters exchanged between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183630,"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\/00231317:c297a1bb799196ac88b7311f881b94f2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,15414,17200,14058,4712,1107,7334,257,254],"class_list":["post-183629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bloc","tag-desperate","tag-legitimacy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231317:c297a1bb799196ac88b7311f881b94f2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183629","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}