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Zambia heads to the polls on 13 August in what is shaping up to be one of the most alliance-driven elections in the country’s recent history.<\/p>\n
With 14 presidential contenders cleared to run and more than 8.8 million registered voters, the 2026 general elections mark the first national test of the country’s new mixed electoral system and a political landscape now dominated by competing coalitions rather than individual parties.<\/p>\n
The shift reflects a broader recalibration of Zambian politics.<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambia heads to the polls on 13 August in what is shaping up to be one of the most alliance-driven elections in the country’s recent history. With 14 presidential contenders cleared to run and more than 8.8 million registered voters, the 2026 general elections mark the first national test of the country’s new mixed electoral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237171,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,12864,8060,9881,8879,257,6916,8059,254,4281,4709,881],"class_list":["post-237170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliance","tag-august","tag-centre","tag-heads","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/237170","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=237170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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