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Opposition parties have accused the government of bulldozing the petroleum bill through parliament, warning that the move threatens democratic principles and sidelines the voices of elected representatives.<\/em><\/p>\n The parties say the decision to advance the bill to committee stage, despite concerns raised during debate, reflects a growing disregard for parliamentary scrutiny, with several leaders accusing the speaker of failing to give lawmakers adequate opportunities to debate the legislation.<\/p>\n Speaking…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Opposition parties have accused the government of bulldozing the petroleum bill through parliament, warning that the move threatens democratic principles and sidelines the voices of elected representatives. The parties say the decision to advance the bill to committee stage, despite concerns raised during debate, reflects a growing disregard for parliamentary scrutiny, with several leaders accusing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248159,"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":[258,256,7292,20558,4854,4706,724,257,5675,5733,254],"class_list":["post-248158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-danger","tag-democracy","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-petroleum","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\/248158","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=248158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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