{"id":966164,"date":"2024-03-11T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=966164"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:18:53","slug":"ff-plus-worried-anc-will-rig-may-polls-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ff-plus-worried-anc-will-rig-may-polls-9\/","title":{"rendered":"FF Plus worried ANC will rig May polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald says they suspect that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/anc-lambasts-da-for-involving-foreign-governments-in-sas-elections\/?hilite=elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African National Congress (ANC)\u00a0will rig the May 29th elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the decision of the Democratic Alliance (DA)\u2019s led Multi-Party Charter to write to several foreign countries urging them to help counter threats of domestic and foreign interference in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>The FF Plus is part of the Charter.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter to the foreign ministers of the G7 industrialised nations, the European Union and four Nordic countries the Charter asks for support in observing the elections, voter education and establishing a parallel vote tabulation system.<\/p>\n<p>Groenewald spoke to the SABC News this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are worried about interference. You must remember that President Ramaphosa said they have a secret weapon for the elections, they will win the elections. What does he mean by that and we are asking him what do you mean by that, that creates suspicions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sakina Kamwendo: \u201cWhy are you suspecting that the ANC will rig the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Groenewald: \u201cIt\u2019s possible of course and I can give you examples, for instance in previous elections where they said there were no votes for the FF Plus and we knew that we have people there and we queried that and then they apologised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom Front Plus manifesto: Dr Pieter Groenewald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vi6ozwMFT0s?si=zjEN5WMtAk8-asY-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald says they suspect that the African National Congress (ANC)\u00a0will rig the May 29th elections. This follows the decision of the Democratic Alliance (DA)\u2019s led Multi-Party Charter to write to several foreign countries urging them to help counter threats of domestic and foreign interference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":966165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1895],"tags":[1909,339,1280,1897,1921,1989],"class_list":["post-966164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-freedom-front-plus","tag-may-29","tag-multiparty-charter","tag-upcoming-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966164","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}