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The declaration of next Wednesday as a public holiday for the regional council and local authority elections has faced criticism from several political parties, who say the decision could further strain Namibia’s economy.<\/em><\/p>\n President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared 26 November a public holiday to allow roughly one million eligible voters to participate in the polls.<\/p>\n Since 2014, election days for both presidential and local authority elections have routinely been declared public holidays.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The declaration of next Wednesday as a public holiday for the regional council and local authority elections has faced criticism from several political parties, who say the decision could further strain Namibia’s economy. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared 26 November a public holiday to allow roughly one million eligible voters to participate in the polls. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214523,"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":[258,256,3576,52934,5140,5268,4706,724,50957,257,6744,6378,5751,12557,254],"class_list":["post-214522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-electionday","tag-fears","tag-holiday","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwahs","tag-news","tag-parties","tag-political","tag-public","tag-slam","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\/214522","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=214522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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