{"id":61028,"date":"2019-05-11T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61028"},"modified":"2019-05-11T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T11:39:22","slug":"cyril-ramaphosas-party-wins-south-africa-elections-with-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cyril-ramaphosas-party-wins-south-africa-elections-with-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s Party wins South Africa elections with majority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South  African President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s ruling ANC won re-election on  Friday with an absolute majority in Parliament, as results showed, but  with diminished support, complicating economic revival and  anti-corruption efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results, published by the electoral \ncommission, are the party&#8217;s worst national showing since Nelson Mandela \nled it to victory in the first multi-racial polls after apartheid ended \nin 1994.The African National Congress held a comfortable lead with 57.73\n percent after 95 percent of voting districts were officially tallied \nfollowing Wednesday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seats in parliament are allocated \nbased on vote share and the party with the most representatives selects \nthe president, who will be sworn in on May 25.President Ramaphosa, took \nover last year when the ANC forced then-president Jacob Zuma to resign \nafter 9 years dominated by corruption allegations and economic decline.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s ruling ANC won re-election on Friday with an absolute majority in Parliament, as results showed, but with diminished support, complicating economic revival and anti-corruption efforts. The results, published by the electoral commission, are the party&#8217;s worst national showing since Nelson Mandela led it to victory in the first multi-racial polls [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61030,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028\/revisions\/61030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}