{"id":4660,"date":"2026-06-15T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:02:52","slug":"kasama-residents-urged-to-vote-for-upnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4660","title":{"rendered":"KASAMA RESIDENTS URGED TO VOTE FOR UPND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Hakainde Hichilema has called on residents in\u00a0Northern Province to vote for the United Party for National Development (UPND) in the August 13, 2026 general elections\u00a0to allow the party to continue implementing developmental programmes in various sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nPresident Hichilema says voting for the United Party for National Development would enable the government to continue delivering development across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nMr Hichilema said in the past four years and months, the government has implemented various programmes which citizens can attest to.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the free education policy, saying over two million children had returned to school, adding that the policy had now been enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also employed more than 20,000 health personnel, as well as teachers, and Zambia National Service (ZNS) officers among other sectors with many young people benefiting from these employment opportunities,\u201d the Head of State said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hakainde Hichilema has called on residents in\u00a0Northern Province to vote for the United Party for National Development (UPND) in the August 13, 2026 general elections\u00a0to allow the party to continue implementing developmental programmes in various sectors. President Hichilema says voting for the United Party for National Development would enable the government to continue delivering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[26,63,25],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewscentre","category-politics","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-presidenthakaindehichilema","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","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=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}