{"id":188389,"date":"2025-01-11T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/many-saw-the-election-as-a-referendum-on-unmet-expectations-and-poor-governance\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:40:28","slug":"many-saw-the-election-as-a-referendum-on-unmet-expectations-and-poor-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/many-saw-the-election-as-a-referendum-on-unmet-expectations-and-poor-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Saw the Election as a Referendum on Unmet Expectations and Poor Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">CIVICUS discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqjzv9k8zjjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> election results <\/a> in Ghana with Evelyn Olukeye, Programme Officer at BudgIT, a civil society organisation that uses technology for civic engagement. BudgIT is a CIVICUS partner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civicus.org\/index.php\/what-we-do\/enabling-and-resourcing\/digital-democracy-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Digital Democracy Initiative <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"88\">On 7 December, former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama made a historic comeback by defeating Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia. The ruling party&#8217;s defeat reflected widespread dissatisfaction with high inflation and a currency crisis. Mahama, president from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501110002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIVICUS discusses the election results in Ghana with Evelyn Olukeye, Programme Officer at BudgIT, a civil society organisation that uses technology for civic engagement. BudgIT is a CIVICUS partner in the Digital Democracy Initiative . On 7 December, former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama made a historic comeback by defeating Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188390,"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\/00661128:28ebe4f27d8acf81d764c104696ff25a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3119,8356,4509,6866,257,8943,9345,254,44406],"class_list":["post-188389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-election","tag-expectations","tag-ghana-news","tag-governance","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-referendum","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unmet"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661128:28ebe4f27d8acf81d764c104696ff25a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188389","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=188389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}