{"id":121336,"date":"2019-12-01T02:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/01\/namibia-election-president-wins-second-term-despite-scandal-and-recession\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T02:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T01:24:28","slug":"namibia-election-president-wins-second-term-despite-scandal-and-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=121336","title":{"rendered":"Namibia election: president wins second term despite scandal and recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hage Geingob re-elected but ruling party takes hit at the polls, with two-thirds parliamentary majority whittled downNamibia\u2019s president has won another term but the longtime ruling party has lost its powerful two-thirds majority in its most challenging election since independence nearly 30 years ago.The southern African nation\u2019s electoral commission said on Saturday that the president, Hage Geingob, received 56% of the vote while opposition challenger Panduleni Itula had 29%. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/namibia-election-president-wins-second-term-despite-scandal-and-recession\" target=\"_blank\">Namibia election: president wins second term despite scandal and recession<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hage Geingob re-elected but ruling party takes hit at the polls, with two-thirds parliamentary majority whittled downNamibia\u2019s president has won another term but the longtime ruling party has lost its powerful two-thirds majority in its most challenging election since independence nearly 30 years ago.The southern African nation\u2019s electoral commission said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}