{"id":968165,"date":"2024-06-23T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968165"},"modified":"2024-06-23T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:25:24","slug":"gauteng-premier-lesufi-postpones-mecs-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/gauteng-premier-lesufi-postpones-mecs-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng Premier Lesufi postpones MECs announcement"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/938814-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi<\/a>, announcement of Members of the Executive Council (MECs) for the 7th administration in the province has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC lost its majority in Gauteng, for the first time in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>In what was described a one of the most hotly contested elections, the ANC only managed to garner 35-percent of the vote in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The DA came in a close 2nd place with 27% of the vote, whilst the EFF came in at 3rd place with 13% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The newly formed MK Party came in at 4th place by achieving 10% of voter support.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Postponement of the media briefing on appointment of Members of the Executive<br \/>\nCouncil for the 7th Administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zaj5CbwG4D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/zaj5CbwG4D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gauteng Provincial Gov (@GautengProvince) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GautengProvince\/status\/1804819884850737617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the month the Gauteng Legislature\u2019s 7th administration had its first sitting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvqeZHwawLA?si=2ZUKWCe62EgrXwmp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi, announcement of Members of the Executive Council (MECs) for the 7th administration in the province has been postponed. The ANC lost its majority in Gauteng, for the first time in 30 years. In what was described a one of the most hotly contested elections, the ANC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[617,383,3101,3108,974],"class_list":["post-968165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eff","tag-gauteng-premier-panyaza-lesufi","tag-mecs","tag-members-of-the-executive-council","tag-mk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968165","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=968165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}