{"id":193262,"date":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vp-koung-on-relationship-with-president-and-role-tells-diaspora-liberians-every-vice-president-is-a-parked-car\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:30:45","slug":"liberia-vp-koung-on-relationship-with-president-and-role-tells-diaspora-liberians-every-vice-president-is-a-parked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vp-koung-on-relationship-with-president-and-role-tells-diaspora-liberians-every-vice-president-is-a-parked-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: VP Koung On Relationship With President and Role &#8211; Tells Diaspora Liberians, &#8216;Every Vice President Is a Parked Car&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Monrovia \u2014 The analogy of a &#8220;parked car&#8221; has once again resurfaced in Liberia&#8217;s political discourse, this time with Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung acknowledging the limitations of his role in the current administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Addressing a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania, USA, during his ongoing visit, VP Koung responded to a question about his influence in the government, stating:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">&#8220;The way our laws are written, every vice president is a parked car because under our Constitution, it says the vice&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100475.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The analogy of a &#8220;parked car&#8221; has once again resurfaced in Liberia&#8217;s political discourse, this time with Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung acknowledging the limitations of his role in the current administration. Addressing a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania, USA, during his ongoing visit, VP Koung responded to a question about his influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193263,"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":[258,256,302,3506,38704,4712,1107,6565,257,48146,2450,12194,8225,254,7036,8505],"class_list":["post-193262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-diaspora","tag-koung","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-news","tag-parked","tag-president","tag-relationship","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells","tag-vice"],"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\/193262","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=193262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}