{"id":1194714,"date":"2022-08-30T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/angolas-ruling-party-declared-winners-of-close-fought-polls\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:40:24","slug":"angolas-ruling-party-declared-winners-of-close-fought-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/angolas-ruling-party-declared-winners-of-close-fought-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola\u2019s Ruling Party Declared Winners of Close-fought Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o is now set for a second five-year term<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission in Angola has declared President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his MPLA party the winners of last week\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n<p>It took just over 51% of the vote, with the opposition Unita party polling its best-ever result at close to 44%.<\/p>\n<p>Unita had rejected the provisional results announced on Thursday, alleging the count had been marred by irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>The MPLA has been in government since independence in 1975, with the country ruled until 2017 by Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos, who died last month.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Louren\u00e7o will be serving his second term as president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o is now set for a second five-year term The Electoral Commission in Angola has declared President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his MPLA party the winners of last week\u2019s national elections. It took just over 51% of the vote, with the opposition Unita party polling its best-ever result at close to 44%. Unita had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[24736,24737,5032,958,7416,7581,505],"class_list":["post-1194714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-angolas","tag-closefought","tag-declared","tag-party","tag-polls","tag-ruling","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}