{"id":246113,"date":"2026-10-01T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-support-parliaments-role-but-express-little-confidence-in-mps\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:00:29","slug":"zambians-support-parliaments-role-but-express-little-confidence-in-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-support-parliaments-role-but-express-little-confidence-in-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Support Parliament&#8217;s Role but Express Little Confidence in MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Few citizens think representatives listen to what ordinary people have to say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost nine in 10 Zambians (87%) say elected officials should prioritise voter demands rather than their own ideas.<\/li>\n<li>But only 15% of citizens say MPs &#8220;often&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; try their best to listen to what ordinary people have to say.<\/li>\n<li>About one in six citizens (17%) say they contacted an MP during the previous year about some important problem or to give them their views.<\/li>\n<li>More than two-thirds (70%) of citizens&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610010015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few citizens think representatives listen to what ordinary people have to say. Key findings Almost nine in 10 Zambians (87%) say elected officials should prioritise voter demands rather than their own ideas. But only 15% of citizens say MPs &#8220;often&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; try their best to listen to what ordinary people have to say. About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246114,"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":[258,256,11665,10034,7260,257,11421,8225,254,6096,881,9005],"class_list":["post-246113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confidence","tag-express","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-parliaments","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"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\/246113","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=246113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}