{"id":185569,"date":"2024-11-29T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumbas-election-extension-proclamation-unlawful-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:53:02","slug":"namibia-president-mbumbas-election-extension-proclamation-unlawful-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumbas-election-extension-proclamation-unlawful-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Mbumba&#8217;s Election Extension Proclamation Unlawful \u2013 Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Lawyer Henry Shimutwikeni says president Nangolo Mbumba&#8217;s extension of the elections is not lawful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mbumba, on the recommendation of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), on Thursday issued a proclamation stating election day is extended from 27 November to 30 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>Remote Zambezi ECN teams face network challenges in uploading election results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Some Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) teams in the Zambezi region&#8217;s remote areas could not share election results on Thursday due to network&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411290113.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>Lawyer Henry Shimutwikeni says president Nangolo Mbumba&#8217;s extension of the elections is not lawful. Mbumba, on the recommendation of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), on Thursday issued a proclamation stating election day is extended from 27 November to 30 November. Remote Zambezi ECN teams face network challenges in uploading election results Some Electoral Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660705:7c67360054660567b665e5645167932c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,3119,11644,8000,50075,4706,724,257,2450,24261,254,11909],"class_list":["post-185569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-election","tag-extension","tag-lawyer","tag-mbumbas","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-proclamation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unlawful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660705:7c67360054660567b665e5645167932c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185569","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=185569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}