{"id":46502,"date":"2022-08-30T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/angola-s-ruling-party-wins-2022-election\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:25:36","slug":"angola-s-ruling-party-wins-2022-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/angola-s-ruling-party-wins-2022-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola&#8217;s ruling party wins 2022 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s largest opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), gained 43.95 percent of the total votes cast, said the CNE.<\/p>\n<p>According to the final results, the MPLA won 124 of the 220 National Assembly seats. The UNITA finished second with 90 seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the Angolan constitution, the top candidate of a political party that wins the most votes is elected as president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43895 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/220823213707-campaign-rally-mpla-082022-large-169.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of Angola&#039;s President and leader of the ruling MPLA Joao Lourenco attend their party&#039;s final rally in Camama, on the outskirts of the capital Luanda, in Angola, on August 20, 2022. Photo CNN \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The People&#8217;s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Angola&#8217;s ruling party, was declared the winner of the 2022 general elections held last week, with 51.17 percent of the votes cast, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced Monday.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46502","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46502"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46502"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}