{"id":198347,"date":"2025-05-18T07:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-tackle-bread-and-butter-issues-mpc-urges-house\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:09:41","slug":"liberia-tackle-bread-and-butter-issues-mpc-urges-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-tackle-bread-and-butter-issues-mpc-urges-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Tackle Bread-and-Butter Issues &#8211; MPC urges House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) has called on members of the House of Representatives to set aside their political differences and prioritize the pressing economic and social concerns of the Liberian people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The call comes in the wake of the election of Representative Richard Nagbe Koon as Speaker of the House, following a period of political turbulence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a statement issued Tuesday, the MPC congratulated Speaker Koon on his election and lauded the House for respecting the Supreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) has called on members of the House of Representatives to set aside their political differences and prioritize the pressing economic and social concerns of the Liberian people. The call comes in the wake of the election of Representative Richard Nagbe Koon as Speaker of the House, following a period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198348,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,51371,5110,8008,4712,1107,11328,257,254,11164,6810],"class_list":["post-198347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breadandbutter","tag-house","tag-issues","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mpc","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackle","tag-urges"],"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\/198347","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=198347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}