{"id":184402,"date":"2024-11-12T01:35:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-legislatures-joint-chamber-allegedly-vandalized-amid-deepening-leadership-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T01:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:35:24","slug":"liberia-legislatures-joint-chamber-allegedly-vandalized-amid-deepening-leadership-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-legislatures-joint-chamber-allegedly-vandalized-amid-deepening-leadership-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Legislature&#8217;s Joint Chamber Allegedly Vandalized Amid Deepening Leadership Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Capitol Hill \u2014 On Monday, lawmakers and staff at the Liberian Legislature arrived to find the joint chambers in disarray, with over 500 chairs uprooted. A FrontPage Africa reporter on the scene confirmed that all chairs had been removed by unknown individuals, escalating the ongoing crisis within the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">According to the constitution, the joint chamber serves as the venue for both the House and Senate to conduct joint business, typically presided over by the Speaker of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110581.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>Capitol Hill \u2014 On Monday, lawmakers and staff at the Liberian Legislature arrived to find the joint chambers in disarray, with over 500 chairs uprooted. A FrontPage Africa reporter on the scene confirmed that all chairs had been removed by unknown individuals, escalating the ongoing crisis within the House of Representatives. According to the constitution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184403,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,5128,11730,3723,16034,6984,8771,49823,4712,1107,257,254,14126],"class_list":["post-184402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-chamber","tag-crisis","tag-deepening","tag-joint","tag-leadership","tag-legislatures","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vandalized"],"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\/184402","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=184402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}