{"id":967917,"date":"2024-06-04T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967917"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:59:58","slug":"udm-queries-iec-on-allocation-of-national-assembly-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/udm-queries-iec-on-allocation-of-national-assembly-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"UDM queries IEC on allocation of National Assembly seats"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/922959-2\/?hilite=udm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Democratic Movement<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">(<\/span>UDM)\u00a0has written to the Electoral Commission\u00a0to query its formula of allocating seats in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This after the commission\u00a0announced which parties will be represented in the\u00a0seventh\u00a0National Assembly following Wednesday\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0UDM\u00a0was allocated two seats.<\/p>\n<p>However, the party\u2019s Secretary-General Yongama Zigebe says that according to the number of votes the UDM has received, the party should have four seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be four seats if they used the correct quota system, then what would have happened to the two seats of the UDM? But we said to ourselves instead of going out and fighting, let\u2019s rather seek clarity so that they show us exactly how they calculated the seats and make us understand how they did it. However, if we find that there are issues within the calculations because we have mathematicians as well, we are going to request our seats back and it\u2019s going to affect the entire seat allocation for all political parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCAST | UDM queries National Assembly seat allocation formula:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UDM queries its seat allocation formula\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/udm-queries-its-seat-allocation-formula\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | Political Analyst Asanda Ngoasheng speaks on the allocation of seats in the National Assembly:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5Gu-jtBypk?si=IvQzlh0-PN4cFJjw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The United Democratic Movement\u00a0(UDM)\u00a0has written to the Electoral Commission\u00a0to query its formula of allocating seats in the National Assembly. This after the commission\u00a0announced which parties will be represented in the\u00a0seventh\u00a0National Assembly following Wednesday\u2019s general elections. The\u00a0UDM\u00a0was allocated two seats. However, the party\u2019s Secretary-General Yongama Zigebe says that according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":967918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1705,474,1299,1924],"class_list":["post-967917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-electoral-commission","tag-national-assembly","tag-udm","tag-united-democratic-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967917","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}