{"id":202737,"date":"2025-07-18T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:18:49","slug":"kenya-gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachaguas-dcp-eyes-parliament-entry-as-mini-poll-aspirants-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua&#8217;s DCP Eyes Parliament Entry As Mini-Poll Aspirants Step Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua&#8217;s Democracy for Citizen Party has unveiled Aden Mohammed and Edgar Busiega as its flagbearers in the Banissa and Malava parliamentary by-elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">DCP Deputy Leader Cleophas Malala said the party is keen on securing the two seats once the new constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission releases the mini-polls dates to fill at least six vacant parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Banissa Constituency has been without an MP since March 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180300.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua&#8217;s Democracy for Citizen Party has unveiled Aden Mohammed and Edgar Busiega as its flagbearers in the Banissa and Malava parliamentary by-elections. DCP Deputy Leader Cleophas Malala said the party is keen on securing the two seats once the new constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission releases the mini-polls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202738,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,7968,51523,6425,4342,46599,4688,430,51896,257,2412,254,5165],"class_list":["post-202737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aspirants","tag-dcp","tag-entry","tag-eyes","tag-gachaguas","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-minipoll","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step"],"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\/202737","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}