{"id":1287,"date":"2011-09-23T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/23\/zambia-opposition-wins-presidentia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:41:19","slug":"zambia-opposition-wins-presidentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/23\/zambia-opposition-wins-presidentia\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: OPPOSITION WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Sata, the populist leader of Zambia\u2019s opposition, was declared the country\u2019s next president early Friday, after a tense election marred by outbursts of violence that left two people dead.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sata\u2019s own supporters, fearful that President Rupiah Banda\u2019s camp was trying to steal the vote, were behind much of the unrest.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But as Chief Justice Ernest Sakala declared his victory shortly after midnight, they poured into the streets of Lusaka cheering, dancing and honking horns. Riot police stood by as the crowd chanted \u201cLet\u2019s go Sata! Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the result that the Zambian people have been expecting for a very long time. Finally this is it,\u201d said Edward Mwalimu, a university lecturer who joined the throng. The electoral commission said Sata had won with 43 percent of the vote to Banda\u2019s 36 percent, with a handful of constituencies still counting ballots.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His swearing-in was expected around midday Friday, which will make Zambia one of the few countries in Africa to have two democratic transitions of power since independence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Banda\u2019s Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) has ruled since Frederick Chiluba unseated independence leader Kenneth Kaunda in the first democratic elections in 1991.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Source: Capital FM News<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sata, the populist leader of Zambia\u2019s opposition, was declared the country\u2019s next president early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}