{"id":33774,"date":"2017-04-08T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambia-s-long-time-opposition-udp-wins-absolute\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T11:46:29","slug":"gambia-s-long-time-opposition-udp-wins-absolute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambia-s-long-time-opposition-udp-wins-absolute\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia&#8217;s long-time opposition UDP wins absolute majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Gambia&#8217;s long-time opposition UDP has won an absolute majority in Thursday&#8217;s parliamentary elections.}<\/p>\n<p>Official results show the party took 31 of the 53 available seats in the country&#8217;s National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was the first time Gambians had gone to the polls since President Yahya Jammeh stepped down in January after 22 years as head of state.<\/p>\n<p>President Adama Barrow was hoping for a majority to be able to bring in political and security reforms.<\/p>\n<p>He won December&#8217;s presidential election as the flag bearer for an opposition coalition including the UDP.<\/p>\n<p>The results were announced by chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission Alieu Momar Njai who said the turnout was 42%.<\/p>\n<p>Five more seats are appointed by the president meaning there is a total of 58 seats in the chamber.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19207 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95492817_mediaitem95492416.jpg\" alt=\"The parliamentary election was the first poll of the post-Jammeh era\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Gambia&#8217;s long-time opposition UDP has won an absolute majority in Thursday&#8217;s parliamentary elections.} Official results show the party took 31 of the 53 available seats in the country&#8217;s National Assembly. The vote was the first time Gambians had gone to the polls since President Yahya Jammeh stepped down in January after 22 years as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33774","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=33774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33774"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33774"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}