{"id":9257,"date":"2013-08-17T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2013-08-17T07:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T07:48:45","slug":"iec-confirms-eff-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"IEC confirms EFF registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9258\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/redberets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9258\" alt=\"Red berets\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/redberets.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red berets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Economic Freedom Fighters have submitted documents to register as a political party, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They advertised in the Government Gazette of 2 August 2013 which means the 14-day period for objections expires tomorrow [Friday],&#8221; the IEC said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The electoral commission will start processing the application for registration after that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EFF, led by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, held its national assembly in Soweto last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The assembly resolved to launch the EFF as a political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a news briefing on the sidelines of the assembly, Malema said the organisation had secured over 1000 new members at the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema said at the time that the EFF would officially register with the IEC after a few amendments had been made, including changes to its logo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EFF logo depicted an arrow instead of a spear, and this was to be changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema said the party would register with double the required number of members needed to contest the election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I was told by the IEC that we should have 500 members to register but we are going register with 1100 new members,&#8221; he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters have submitted documents to register as a political party, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Thursday. &#8220;They advertised in the Government Gazette of 2 August 2013 which means the 14-day period for objections expires tomorrow [Friday],&#8221; the IEC said. &#8220;The electoral commission will start processing the application for registration after that.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IEC confirms EFF registration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1391,3282,5217,5219,23,5218],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-iec","tag-independent-electoral-commission","tag-julius-malema","tag-red-berets"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/redberets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}