{"id":200765,"date":"2025-06-24T01:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batswana-maintain-preference-for-democracy-but-support-for-elections-is-weakening\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:30:55","slug":"botswana-batswana-maintain-preference-for-democracy-but-support-for-elections-is-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batswana-maintain-preference-for-democracy-but-support-for-elections-is-weakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Batswana Maintain Preference for Democracy, but Support for Elections Is Weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">More than half of citizens express dissatisfaction with the way their democracy is working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven in 10 Batswana (70%) prefer democracy to all other forms of government.<\/li>\n<li>Overwhelming majorities oppose dictatorship (91%), military rule (81%), and one-party rule (80%).<\/li>\n<li>About two-thirds (65%) of citizens say elections are the best way to choose the country&#8217;s political leaders. o But the proportion of citizens who favour elections has dropped by more than 20 percentage points since 2008&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506230310.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of citizens express dissatisfaction with the way their democracy is working. Key findings Seven in 10 Batswana (70%) prefer democracy to all other forms of government. Overwhelming majorities oppose dictatorship (91%), military rule (81%), and one-party rule (80%). About two-thirds (65%) of citizens say elections are the best way to choose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200766,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7917,4718,2462,4854,821,7505,257,51717,254,6096,32036],"class_list":["post-200765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batswana","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-maintain","tag-news","tag-preference","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-weakening"],"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\/200765","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=200765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}