{"id":242228,"date":"2026-08-26T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-rejects-opposition-zoning-says-elections-are-won-at-the-ballot\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:01:05","slug":"kenya-gachagua-rejects-opposition-zoning-says-elections-are-won-at-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-rejects-opposition-zoning-says-elections-are-won-at-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Rejects Opposition Zoning, Says Elections Are Won At the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 The Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) has ruled out any electoral zoning arrangements with its opposition allies, insisting it will field candidates in every elective seat across the country ahead of the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking during a political event in Nairobi, DCP leaders said the party welcomes competition from other opposition parties but will not surrender seats through negotiated political deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;I am a person who believes in multiparty democracy, and I want all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 The Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) has ruled out any electoral zoning arrangements with its opposition allies, insisting it will field candidates in every elective seat across the country ahead of the 2027 General Election. Speaking during a political event in Nairobi, DCP leaders said the party welcomes competition from other opposition parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242229,"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":[258,256,9240,821,36131,4688,430,257,5675,8440,254,19727,34944],"class_list":["post-242228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-elections","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-won","tag-zoning"],"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\/242228","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=242228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}