{"id":966129,"date":"2024-02-29T22:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=966129"},"modified":"2024-02-29T22:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:42:05","slug":"change-of-heart-on-contesting-elections-for-change-starts-now-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/change-of-heart-on-contesting-elections-for-change-starts-now-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of heart on contesting elections for Change Starts Now party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/live-change-starts-now-2024-elections-manifesto-launch\/?hilite=Change+Starts+Now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newly-formed party, Change Starts Now<\/a>, will not be contesting the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by party leader, Rodger Jardine, he cites Monday\u2019s Constitutional Court ruling as a barrier for newly-formed parties like themselves to contest in the May 29 polls.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court declined to enrol a matter relating to signature requirements for parties not represented in parliament. This means that unrepresented political parties still need 15% of the regional seat quotas in the preceding election if intending to contest in that region. This, whilst independent candidates only need 1000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>CSN unveiled its Change Charter when it launched its Manifesto last week Monday in Kliptown Soweto.<\/p>\n<p>The two-month-old party says it will offer support to political parties who share its values and aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Newly-formed party, Change Starts Now, will not be contesting the 2024 elections. In a statement released by party leader, Rodger Jardine, he cites Monday\u2019s Constitutional Court ruling as a barrier for newly-formed parties like themselves to contest in the May 29 polls. The apex court declined to enrol a matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":966073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1895],"tags":[1976,1977],"class_list":["post-966129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-news","tag-change-starts-now","tag-may-29-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966129","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}