{"id":17111,"date":"2014-10-29T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T08:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/guy-scott-named-interim-president-of-zambia\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T08:45:20","slug":"guy-scott-named-interim-president-of-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/guy-scott-named-interim-president-of-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Scott named interim president of Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7195 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/giyscott29-63wg3g7yvgukhjiaakqsg6v4tvkwpx76r9q2xv3njyq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Zambian Vice President Guy Scott has been named acting head of state following the death of President Michael Sata, making him Africa\u2019s first white leader since South Africa\u2018s FW de Klerk.}<\/p>\n<p>Defence and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu said Scott would occupy the office until an election is held, likely to be within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr Scott will act as president of the Republic of Zambia until the country goes for a presidential by-election,\u201d said Lungu.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement averts a possible constitutional crisis that could have seen Lungu and Scott vie for power.<\/p>\n<p>Lungu, a powerful figure in the ruling Patriotic Front, had been named acting president by Sata when the late leader left for Britain for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Sata died yesterday at London\u2019s Edward VII Hospital of an undisclosed ailment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government remains intact and so does the Patriotic Front as a party. We shall update on each decision made in this regard,\u201d said Lungu.<\/p>\n<p>Scott and Lungu belong to rival factions within the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>However Scott (70) is not eligible to become president because of foreign parentage rules in Zambia\u2019s 1996 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sapa-AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Zambian Vice President Guy Scott has been named acting head of state following the death of President Michael Sata, making him Africa\u2019s first white leader since South Africa\u2018s FW de Klerk.} Defence and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu said Scott would occupy the office until an election is held, likely to be within 90 days. \u201cDr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000054735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000054735,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17111.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000054735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}