{"id":197665,"date":"2025-05-08T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-prefer-democracy-despite-decline-in-satisfaction-with-how-it-is-working\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:53:54","slug":"zambians-prefer-democracy-despite-decline-in-satisfaction-with-how-it-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-prefer-democracy-despite-decline-in-satisfaction-with-how-it-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Prefer Democracy Despite Decline in Satisfaction With How It Is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">After post-election peak, citizens&#8217; appraisals of their democracy drop off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than eight in 10 Zambians (85%) say they prefer democracy to any other form of government.<\/li>\n<li>Overwhelming majorities reject dictatorship (90%), military rule (88%), and one-party rule (85%).<\/li>\n<li>Almost nine out of 10 Zambians (86%) support regular, open, and honest elections as the best way to choose their political leaders, a position that has consistently had strong support over the past decade.<\/li>\n<li>Seven in 10&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After post-election peak, citizens&#8217; appraisals of their democracy drop off. Key findings More than eight in 10 Zambians (85%) say they prefer democracy to any other form of government. Overwhelming majorities reject dictatorship (90%), military rule (88%), and one-party rule (85%). Almost nine out of 10 Zambians (86%) support regular, open, and honest elections as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197666,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,14228,4854,257,18978,14325,254,6249,881,9005],"class_list":["post-197665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decline","tag-democracy","tag-news","tag-prefer","tag-satisfaction","tag-south-africa-today","tag-working","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"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\/197665","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=197665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}