{"id":2104,"date":"2014-11-03T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2014-11-03T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:40:47","slug":"tanzania-opposition-forms-united-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/tanzania-opposition-forms-united-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania- Opposition forms united front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tanzania&#8217;s main opposition parties have agreed tocollectively challenge the ruling party in presidential and general elections next year.Four key parties saythey will present single candidates &#8220;at all levels&#8221;, including for the presidential poll, due in October 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President JakayaKikwete&#8217;s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has been in power since independence in 1961, and holds two-thirds of seats in the assembly.Having served two terms in power, he cannot run again.<br \/>\nThe opposition coalition is headed by Chadema party, the Civic United Front (CUF), the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the National Convention for Construction and Reform (NCCR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s main opposition parties have agreed tocollectively challenge the ruling party in presidential and general elections next year.Four key parties saythey will present single candidates &#8220;at all levels&#8221;, including for the presidential poll, due in October 2015. President JakayaKikwete&#8217;s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has been in power since independence in 1961, and holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[470,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}