{"id":968326,"date":"2024-07-03T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968326"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:57:20","slug":"mk-party-withdraws-electoral-court-application-over-election-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mk-party-withdraws-electoral-court-application-over-election-results-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Party withdraws Electoral Court application over election results"},"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The MK Party has withdrawn its application against the Electoral Commission (IEC) at the Electoral Court that sought to invalidate the 2024 election results.<\/p>\n<p>The party had alleged that the elections results declared by the IEC were not free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>It also called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to call for a new election date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: MK Party has withdrawn its application in the Electoral Court. The application sought to invalidate the 2024 National &amp; Provincial Elections <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SABCNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SABCNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3YGWGMc3k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/w3YGWGMc3k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canny Maphanga (@CannyMaphanga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CannyMaphanga\/status\/1808509783198109936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The MK Party has withdrawn its application against the Electoral Commission (IEC) at the Electoral Court that sought to invalidate the 2024 election results. The party had alleged that the elections results declared by the IEC were not free and fair. It also called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":968327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2890,1705,544,1593,974,2010],"class_list":["post-968326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-election-results","tag-electoral-commission","tag-electoral-court","tag-iec","tag-mk-party","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968326","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}