{"id":4201,"date":"2026-05-21T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:45:03","slug":"mmembe-successfully-files-his-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"M\u2019MEMBE SUCCESSFULLY FILES HIS NOMINATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist Party (SP)\u00a0leader, Fred M&#8217;membe has successfully filed his nominations ahead of the August 13 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Returning Officer and Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chairperson Mwangala Zaloumis has declared the candidature of Dr M\u2019membe valid to contest in the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Dr M\u2019membe will contest the presidential election alongside his running mate, Dolika Banda, who becomes one of the female candidates in this year\u2019s presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the validation of the nomination papers in Lusaka yesterday, Ms Zaloumis congratulated the Socialist Party for its continued participation in Zambia\u2019s electoral processes.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Zaloumis described the participation of political parties as important partners in strengthening democracy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dr M\u2019membe expressed gratitude following the successful validation of his nomination papers, saying the development paves way for his party to appear on the ballot paper in the forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist Party (SP)\u00a0leader, Fred M&#8217;membe has successfully filed his nominations ahead of the August 13 general elections. Presidential Returning Officer and Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chairperson Mwangala Zaloumis has declared the candidature of Dr M\u2019membe valid to contest in the upcoming general elections. Dr M\u2019membe will contest the presidential election alongside his running mate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-local","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}