{"id":964155,"date":"2024-07-03T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964155"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:57:09","slug":"mk-party-withdraws-electoral-court-application-over-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mk-party-withdraws-electoral-court-application-over-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Party withdraws Electoral Court application over election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MK Party has withdrawn its application against the Electoral Commission (IEC) at the Electoral Court that sought to invalidate the 2024 election results.<\/p>\n<p>The party had alleged that the elections results declared by the IEC were not free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>It also called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to call for a new election date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: MK Party has withdrawn its application in the Electoral Court. The application sought to invalidate the 2024 National &amp; Provincial Elections <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SABCNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SABCNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3YGWGMc3k\">pic.twitter.com\/w3YGWGMc3k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canny Maphanga (@CannyMaphanga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CannyMaphanga\/status\/1808509783198109936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party had alleged that the elections results declared by the IEC were not free and fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":964156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,45],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-964155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-politics","tag-iec-vs-mk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}