{"id":35402,"date":"2026-05-26T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35402"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:05:43","slug":"zambia-candidate-race-enters-crucial-stage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-candidate-race-enters-crucial-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia candidate race enters crucial stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The nomination of candidates is a critical stage in Zambia&#8217;s electoral process, as it determines who will appear on the ballot paper and who will be left as spectators after failing to qualify.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This point also marks the beginning of the election stage in a democratically and constitutionally governed Southern African country, specifically the official campaign period that lasts for 90 days leading up to the August 13, General Elections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Zambia has recently finished its nomination process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately, this has been marred by incidents of violence, which goes against the hopes of many leaders and citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The country has seen 14 candidates successfully filing in and being validly nominated to contest the August 13, 2026, Presidential\u00a0election by the Electoral Commission of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>About a thousand vying for Member of Parliament positions from the 226 available seats under the new law and equally thousands scrambling for the 1 858 local government seats available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35402","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zambia's electoral process","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35402","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\/35402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35403,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35402\/revisions\/35403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}