{"id":24404,"date":"2019-05-11T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24404"},"modified":"2019-05-11T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T03:59:11","slug":"south-africa-election-anc-set-for-reduced-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24404","title":{"rendered":"South Africa election: ANC set for reduced majority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/South-Africa-election-ANC-set-for-reduced-majority-745084?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/17608097.295.jpg\" alt=\"An Election\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>An election official empties a ballot box as counting begins in Durban<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The governing African National Congress (ANC) is expected to be returned to office in South Africa&#8217;s parliamentary election, but with a reduced majority.<br><br>With almost 76% of district results declared, the ANC has won 57% of the ballot, well ahead of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on 22%.<br><br>The ANC, which has been in power since 1994, won 62% of the vote at the last general election in 2014.<br><br>The radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is in third place with 10%, based on the official early results.<br><br>Turnout was about 65% in the twin parliamentary and provincial elections &#8211; a drop compared to the 73% registered five years ago.<br><br>Full results are due on Saturday.<br><br>This has been a bad election for the opposition Democratic Alliance which lost votes, and failed to capitalise on the government&#8217;s mistakes.<br><br>Votes are cast for parties, with seats in the 400-member National Assembly allocated according to the share of the vote gained by each party.<br><br>These MPs then elect a president.<span style=\"background-color: rgb(232, 234, 235);\"><b> &#8212;\u00a0NNN-AGENCIES<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An election official empties a ballot box as counting begins in Durban PRETORIA, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The governing African National Congress (ANC) is expected to be returned to office in South Africa&#8217;s parliamentary election, but with a reduced majority. With almost 76% of district results declared, the ANC has won 57% of the ballot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}