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Political analyst Henning Melber says Swapo has put themselves in a difficult situation since “tampering” with the appropriate procedures to fill positions using proper elections.<\/em><\/p>\n His comments follow uncertainty about who will fill the vice president position vacated by Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who became party president over the weekend.<\/p>\n The matter of succession has been postponed; Swapo’s central committee has resolved to keep the position unoccupied until 2027. Melber argued this decision, to a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Political analyst Henning Melber says Swapo has put themselves in a difficult situation since “tampering” with the appropriate procedures to fill positions using proper elections. His comments follow uncertainty about who will fill the vice president position vacated by Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who became party president over the weekend. The matter of succession has been postponed; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7206,50877,4706,724,257,254,20034,1664],"class_list":["post-193676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-analysts","tag-mishandled","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-succession","tag-swapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193676","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=193676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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