{"id":239732,"date":"2026-07-28T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rnc-sounds-alarm-over-proposed-2-percent-electoral-threshold-warns-against-future-political-exclusion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:07:05","slug":"liberia-rnc-sounds-alarm-over-proposed-2-percent-electoral-threshold-warns-against-future-political-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rnc-sounds-alarm-over-proposed-2-percent-electoral-threshold-warns-against-future-political-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: RNC Sounds Alarm Over Proposed 2 Percent Electoral Threshold, Warns Against Future Political Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Monrovia \u2014 The Reformers National Congress, RNC, has launched a blistering attack on the administration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, alleging that ongoing discussions surrounding the possible application of a 2% electoral threshold could be used to shrink Liberia&#8217;s political space and sideline opposition parties ahead of future elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In a statement titled &#8220;They Are Ready to Steal Again,&#8221; the opposition party warned that any rigid enforcement of the threshold would undermine democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607280480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Reformers National Congress, RNC, has launched a blistering attack on the administration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, alleging that ongoing discussions surrounding the possible application of a 2% electoral threshold could be used to shrink Liberia&#8217;s political space and sideline opposition parties ahead of future elections. In a statement titled &#8220;They Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,9582,7239,24030,5760,4712,1107,257,6720,6378,8487,54981,15919,254,14449,6853],"class_list":["post-239732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-electoral","tag-exclusion","tag-future","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-political","tag-proposed","tag-rnc","tag-sounds","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threshold","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}