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As the 55th Legislature officially reconvenes today, January 13, for its second session, the impasse at the House of Representatives casts a long shadow over the Capitol’s ability to conduct legislative business. Embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa remains in limbo, refusing to officially relinquish his position, despite Representative Richard Nagbe Koon assuming de facto leadership. This unresolved power struggle has left the House deeply divided and legislative progress in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> As the 55th Legislature officially reconvenes today, January 13, for its second session, the impasse at the House of Representatives casts a long shadow over the Capitol’s ability to conduct legislative business. Embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa remains in limbo, refusing to officially relinquish his position, despite Representative Richard Nagbe Koon assuming de facto leadership. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188530,"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":[258,256,29678,12555,9722,4712,1107,257,20570,29743,254,6637],"class_list":["post-188529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cloud","tag-dark","tag-legislature","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-persists","tag-reconvenes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"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\/188529","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=188529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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