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President Mokgweetsi Masisi has accepted defeat after Batswana voters rejected the country\u2019s long-serving governing party at their October 30 polls.<\/p>\n
Masisi’s party, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), has been in power since independence in 1966.<\/p>\n
In a press conference, Masisi said: “I will respectfully step aside and participate in a smooth transition process ahead of inauguration,” Masisi said in a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> President Mokgweetsi Masisi has accepted defeat after Batswana voters rejected the country\u2019s long-serving governing party at their October 30 polls. Masisi’s party, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), has been in power since independence in 1966. In a press conference, Masisi said: “I will respectfully step aside and participate in a smooth transition process ahead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660385:d11998560f990a8dbfd17509c0ad6c9a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[10513,258,256,4718,2462,6531,11660,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-183786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-accepts","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-defeat","tag-masisi","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660385:d11998560f990a8dbfd17509c0ad6c9a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183786","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=183786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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