{"id":968100,"date":"2024-06-14T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968100"},"modified":"2024-06-14T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:47:51","slug":"zondo-agrees-to-effs-request-regarding-speaker-vote-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/zondo-agrees-to-effs-request-regarding-speaker-vote-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Zondo agrees to EFF\u2019s request regarding Speaker vote counting"},"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>Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has acceded to a request from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) that the counting of the votes for the election of the Speaker of the National Assembly be observed by political parties represented in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The voting process was conducted through a secret ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Zondo asked all parties to assign one member to observe the counting process.<\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress\u2019s Thoko Didiza is standing against the EFF\u2019s Veronica Mente for the position of Speaker.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvpR2mkk6B8?si=a9v5l7-6q1YS4knq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The results of the vote are expected shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has acceded to a request from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) that the counting of the votes for the election of the Speaker of the National Assembly be observed by political parties represented in Parliament. The voting process was conducted through a secret ballot. Justice Zondo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":968101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3068,2311,617,474],"class_list":["post-968100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chief-justice-raymond-zondo","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-national-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968100","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}