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The Constitutional Court ruled that former president Edgar Lungu could not run for re-election in\u00a02026 – a year after Lungu announced his return to active political life.<\/p>\n
The opposition Tonse Alliance selected Lungu as its presidential candidate in the 2026 elections to challenge President Hakainde\u00a0 Hichilema.<\/p>\n
Lungu had already served the maximum two terms allowed by law, the court ruled, and after the death of President Michael Sata in October 2014, he was elected president in January 2015 to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Constitutional Court ruled that former president Edgar Lungu could not run for re-election in\u00a02026 – a year after Lungu announced his return to active political life. The opposition Tonse Alliance selected Lungu as its presidential candidate in the 2026 elections to challenge President Hakainde\u00a0 Hichilema. Lungu had already served the maximum two terms allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186353,"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\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8212,6185,12175,7280,257,6438,5146,254,7319,4709,881],"class_list":["post-186352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bars","tag-court","tag-expresident","tag-lungu","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186352","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=186352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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