{"id":16346,"date":"2020-07-21T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=16346"},"modified":"2020-07-21T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:41:18","slug":"tanzanias-electoral-body-sets-date-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/tanzanias-electoral-body-sets-date-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania&#8217;s electoral body &#8216;sets date for elections&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s electoral commission has set 28 October as the date for general elections, the Citizen newspaper reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commission&#8217;s chairman Justice Semistocles Kaijage has told a media briefing that election campaigns will start on 26 August and end a day before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidential and parliamentary candidates will submit their names to the commission on 25 August, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President John Magufuli, 60, will seek re-election for a five-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party has been in power since 1964 when mainland Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s electoral commission has set 28 October as the date for general elections, the Citizen newspaper reports. The commission&#8217;s chairman Justice Semistocles Kaijage has told a media briefing that election campaigns will start on 26 August and end a day before the election. Presidential and parliamentary candidates will submit their names to the commission on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16347,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions\/16347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}