The decree sets the campaign period from December 13 until December 26 at midnight. Authorities have described the polls as a significant step in consolidating democratic institutions in the country.<\/p>\n
Opposition groups under the Republican Bloc for the Defence of the Constitution have voiced concern over the decision, rejecting recent constitutional reforms and pressing for a political dialogue before the elections take place.<\/p>\n
Ludovic Ledo, national and international co-ordinator of the G-16, said in an interview; \u201cThese elections cannot be credible without first addressing the deep political divisions in our country. Dialogue is essential if we are to move forward peacefully and avoid further instability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12447,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12446","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ||The President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, has signed a decree calling the electorate to the polls for the first round of presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on December 28, 2025. ","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18050,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12446\/revisions\/18050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}