{"id":5592,"date":"2020-08-18T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2021-03-21T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:39:28","slug":"policy-brief-polemics-of-post-elections-in-sierra-leone-beyond-the-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/policy-brief-polemics-of-post-elections-in-sierra-leone-beyond-the-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief:- Polemics of Post-Elections in Sierra Leone: Beyond the Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, 2018, Sierra Leone elected a new President, Members of Parliament, and Local Councils in the fourth multi-party elections since the end of the civil war in 2002. A total of 17 political parties participated in the elections while 16 candidates, including 2 women, contested for the presidency. Notably, the Constitutional provision of 55% required for presidential candidates to be elected was not met at the first ballot leading to a run-off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/files\/2019\/Feb\/Sierra_Leone_Policy_Brief_on_Post-Election_Tensions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, 2018, Sierra Leone elected a new President, Members of Parliament, and Local Councils in the fourth multi-party elections since the end of the civil war in 2002. A total of 17 political parties participated in the elections while 16 candidates, including 2 women, contested for the presidency. Notably, the Constitutional provision of 55% required for presidential candidates to be elected was not met at the first ballot leading to a run-off. Download file here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}