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Opposition parties are courting the idea of joining forces to field one presidential candidate to take on Swapo in 2029.<\/em><\/p>\n This comes after Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi said he is open to backing a unified opposition presidential candidate for the next elections.<\/p>\n He was speaking to OneAfrica last week in response to questions related to by-elections slated for 17 June.<\/p>\n Swartbooi said the party will not be taking part in the by-elections, but will shift its focus in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Opposition parties are courting the idea of joining forces to field one presidential candidate to take on Swapo in 2029. This comes after Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi said he is open to backing a unified opposition presidential candidate for the next elections. He was speaking to OneAfrica last week in response to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198984,"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":[258,256,7997,6984,13539,4706,724,257,5675,6438,254],"class_list":["post-198983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidate","tag-joint","tag-mulls","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/198983","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=198983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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