{"id":8979,"date":"2022-09-06T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:08:17","slug":"election-of-speakers-in-national-assembly-and-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"Election of speakers in National Assembly and the senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politics shifts to the election of speakers in the National Assembly and the Senate. The two houses are set to hold their first sitting on Thursday, September 8, 2022.Moses Wetang&#8217;ula and Kalonzo Musyoka have been mentioned as the top contenders for the position of National Assembly speaker. The National Assembly and the Senate have officially invited applications for the speaker and deputy speaker&#8217;s posts ahead of the swearing-in of the 13th Parliament on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220906_110508_521-1-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220906_110508_521-1-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220906_110508_521-1-980x580.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220906_110508_521-1-480x284.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics shifts to the election of speakers in the National Assembly and the Senate. The two houses are set to hold their first sitting on Thursday, September 8, 2022.Moses Wetang&#8217;ula and Kalonzo Musyoka have been mentioned as the top contenders for the position of National Assembly speaker. The National Assembly and the Senate have officially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220906_110508_521.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8982,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}