{"id":131273,"date":"2016-08-23T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=131273"},"modified":"2016-08-23T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:58:23","slug":"voting-for-speaker-of-council-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/23\/voting-for-speaker-of-council-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Voting for speaker of council begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the speaker of council was delayed after the EFF and the DA raised the issue of whether or not all the councillors present in the council chamber are in fact who they say they are and they said that there appear to be more people than there should be in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Role call was once again taken.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The IEC has said that each councillor will be called up individually by name to come and cast their vote to make sure all ballots are linked to a person.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the IEC&#8217;s ruling below:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VN - 20160823 - WA001 by Germiston City News\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F279511206&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Voting has started and is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131268\/update-metro-prepares-to-vote-for-speaker-of-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Metro prepares to vote for speaker of council<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131257\/ekurhulenis-council-meeting-to-elect-new-mayor-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ekurhuleni\u2019s council meeting to elect new mayor underway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f15cc9281fd5582fbcf0081430603b45'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some issues voting for the speaker has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":131274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,2360,979,969,2730,1009,2734,1002,1004,12103,2076],"class_list":["post-131273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-election","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-mayor","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-speaker-of-council","tag-vote"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","election","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","mayor","melissa hart","metro","municipality","speaker of council","vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}