{"id":38418,"date":"2026-06-30T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38418"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:40","slug":"sao-tome-and-principe-pm-claims-leadership-of-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sao-tome-and-principe-pm-claims-leadership-of-ruling-party\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe PM claims leadership of ruling party \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe Prime Minister (PM) Am\u00e9rico Ramos has declared himself the new President of the Independent Democratic Action (ADI) party following a congress held over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move has plunged the country&#8217;s largest political force into a deep leadership crisis. The party&#8217;s current executive faction, led by former Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada, immediately rejected the election, branding the congress illegitimate and a complete farce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ADI Vice President Celmira Sacramento confirmed that the leadership has appealed to the Constitutional Court to block the move, warning that the parallel congress violated party statutes and threatens the country&#8217;s democratic stability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34688,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38418","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"PM Am\u00e9rico Ramos claims leadership of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 ruling ADI party","published_date":"2026-06-30 13:06:35","news_description":"PM Am\u00e9rico Ramos claims leadership of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 ruling ADI party","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38418","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\/38418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38419,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38418\/revisions\/38419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}