{"id":47681,"date":"2026-10-09T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47681"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:46:41","slug":"sao-tome-and-principe-ruling-party-secures-29-seat-majority-after-parliamentary-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sao-tome-and-principe-ruling-party-secures-29-seat-majority-after-parliamentary-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe ruling party secures 29-seat majority after parliamentary deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, the ruling Independent Democratic Action (ADI) party and the MCI-PS\/PUN coalition have reached a parliamentary agreement securing a 29-seat majority in the 55-member National Assembly for the government led by Am\u00e9rico Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deal follows the September 27 legislative elections, which were won by the Movement for the Liberation of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe with 24 seats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite providing crucial parliamentary backing to enable the ADI to form a government, leadership from the MCI-PS\/PUN coalition confirmed they will not take up ministerial posts within the cabinet, choosing instead to maintain oversight of executive decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46900,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47681","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe ruling party secures 29-seat majority","published_date":"2026-10-09 14:46:18","news_description":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe ruling party secures 29-seat majority","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47681","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\/47681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47682,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47681\/revisions\/47682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}