{"id":234608,"date":"2023-08-27T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=234608"},"modified":"2023-08-27T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:59:43","slug":"zimbabwean-president-mnangagwa-re-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=234608","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa Re-Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HARARE, Aug 27 (NNN-IRIN) &#8211; Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected for a second five-year term, after garnering 52.6 percent of the total votes cast, in the Aug 23-24 elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mnangagwa beat 10 other presidential contestants after polling 2,350,711 votes, ZEC chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mnangagwa&#8217;s main challenger and opposition Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, got 1,967,343 votes or 44 percent of the valid votes cast, Chigumba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Zimbabwean law, a presidential winner must get 50 percent plus one vote of the total valid votes cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mnangagwa Emmerson Dambudzo of ZANU-PF party is declared duly elected president of the Republic of Zimbabwe with effect from Aug 26, 2023 (yesterday)&#8221; Chigumba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ZEC, Mnangagwa&#8217;s ruling ZANU-PF party has won the majority of the 210 parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabweans voted on Wednesday and Thursday, with a voter turnout of 68.9 percent, to choose a new president, members of parliament and representatives of local governments.&#8211; NNN-IRIN  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Aug 27 (NNN-IRIN) &#8211; Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected for a second five-year term, after garnering 52.6 percent of the total votes cast, in the Aug 23-24 elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced, yesterday. Mnangagwa beat 10 other presidential contestants after polling 2,350,711 votes, ZEC chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba said. Mnangagwa&#8217;s main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234609,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234608\/revisions\/234609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}