{"id":185528,"date":"2024-11-29T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-votes-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:52:02","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-votes-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-votes-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Votes &#8211; What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>Zimpapers Politics Hub<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">NAMIBIANS are voting today for a new president and parliamentary representatives following the death of President Hage Geingob on February 4, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">President Geingob was replaced on an interim basis by his deputy, Mr Nangolo Mbumba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">The Electoral system<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Namibian constitution stipulates that a president is directly elected by voters and he or she has to garner more than 50 percent of the votes to be declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.adsense-outer-ad-container.adsense-responsive-outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The president is elected using the two-round&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411280221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimpapers Politics Hub NAMIBIANS are voting today for a new president and parliamentary representatives following the death of President Hage Geingob on February 4, 2024. President Geingob was replaced on an interim basis by his deputy, Mr Nangolo Mbumba. The Electoral system The Namibian constitution stipulates that a president is directly elected by voters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185529,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,4706,724,257,254,7153,10348],"class_list":["post-185528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-votes"],"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\/185528","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=185528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}