{"id":3953,"date":"2021-07-15T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:15:59","slug":"guidance-on-independent-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"GUIDANCE ON INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>PRESS RELEASE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>(For Immediate Release)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>GUIDANCE ON INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electoral\nCommission of Zambia wishes to remind all independent candidates for the\nforthcoming General Election that independent candidates should not be\naffiliated to any political party. In line with the legal requirements, all\nindependent candidates should have relinquished political party membership <strong>\u201cat least two months immediately before the\ndate of the election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this end,\nindependent candidates should desist from using campaign materials for\npolitical parties or in any way identify themselves with any political party.\nThe Commission will not hesitate to take appropriate action including\ndisqualification of erring candidates <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patricia Luhanga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corporate Affairs Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For\/The Chief Electoral Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the Release <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F1_21qf7Fd76drrV4r615Ogksecdccwsd8%2Fview%3Fusp%3Ddrivesdk%26fbclid%3DIwAR1-UQBi30dpEXpd5mZT_S1UPENpPAjzF98_vfZJikx3wZzNagidPPMXhbU&amp;h=AT33YAEn0FMBZgdKfOPn-LGCsu6uFiXEyI3j2nRiHhtLqs1dzMeIuNJbVKbYZlMB77YPx7dSvHm_VbsWVhb6Tz-2fXfLNqeXtBwp1TrivSboo1SWZSvz20bGMefHkdGyeQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1KhFu7VuzYn-IUwWHD6Z26Fgziy9DYpqdOcOVZs5KSLzpb0EO_iZWzN8-goKXd4-mAUVbMdHK9VvzWGFNNbOSE7Qw0kmocJWU3Zbprt8So4hdvLrkW6LMZSOGJLsq8kPPJ15YXjyTbS64pqtBd3z5kg5H9UTbpha9KTthH723siRhf1Rh4A48O2TQNYL8B\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission of Zambia wishes to remind all independent candidates for the forthcoming General Election that independent candidates should not be affiliated to any political party. In line with the legal requirements, all independent candidates should have relinquished political party membership \u201cat least two months immediately before the date of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-public-notice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}