{"id":196677,"date":"2008-04-02T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/02\/zimbabwes-update\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:39:00","slug":"zimbabwes-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/02\/zimbabwes-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sokwanele.com\/thisiszimbabwe\/archives\/819\">Zanu PF appears to have lost its parliamentary majority<\/a>, though it also appears that the MDC Mutambara, while being the plurality party, will be about 2 seats short (out of 200) of an outright majority.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the MDC Mutambara is now explicitly saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/01\/world\/africa\/01zimbabwe.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world&amp;oref=slogin\">Mugabe has lost the election for President<\/a>.  From the numbers, I&#8217;m not clear if they are insisting that they won outright which still seems a close call, or if they won, but did not get the 50% necessary to avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zanu PF appears to have lost its parliamentary majority, though it also appears that the MDC Mutambara, while being the plurality party, will be about 2 seats short (out of 200) of an outright majority. Meanwhile, the MDC Mutambara is now explicitly saying that Mugabe has lost the election for President. From the numbers, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}