{"id":183861,"date":"2024-11-03T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-sadc-must-urge-independent-recount-of-rigged-mozambique-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:25:03","slug":"southern-africa-sadc-must-urge-independent-recount-of-rigged-mozambique-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-sadc-must-urge-independent-recount-of-rigged-mozambique-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: SADC Must Urge Independent Recount of Rigged Mozambique Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Democratic Alliance (DA) condemns the recent Mozambican presidential election, which was marred by widespread irregularities, violence, and political assassinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Mozambican electoral commission&#8217;s declaration of Daniel Chapo as President &#8211; with a claimed 70.6% of the vote &#8211; is not only suspect but indicative of a deeply compromised electoral process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Reports of blatant fraud, vote tampering, and intimidation have cast a dark shadow over Mozambique&#8217;s democracy. Observers, including the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410280069.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>The Democratic Alliance (DA) condemns the recent Mozambican presidential election, which was marred by widespread irregularities, violence, and political assassinations. The Mozambican electoral commission&#8217;s declaration of Daniel Chapo as President &#8211; with a claimed 70.6% of the vote &#8211; is not only suspect but indicative of a deeply compromised electoral process. Reports of blatant fraud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660406:646ec611042531b0664d6d7be9896e7e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,821,7523,4704,682,257,18553,23958,1412,254,7153,10525],"class_list":["post-183861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-independent","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-recount","tag-rigged","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660406:646ec611042531b0664d6d7be9896e7e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861","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=183861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}