{"id":642,"date":"2026-10-16T01:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=642"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:38:50","slug":"political-parties-registrar-approves-linda-mwananchi-movement-party-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Political parties registrar approves Linda Mwananchi Movement Party name change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6053537-a6b8-42d2-b1e0-27d77f20875c_Edwin-Sifuna-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6053537-a6b8-42d2-b1e0-27d77f20875c_Edwin-Sifuna-og_image.webp 802w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6053537-a6b8-42d2-b1e0-27d77f20875c_Edwin-Sifuna-og_image-300x236.webp 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6053537-a6b8-42d2-b1e0-27d77f20875c_Edwin-Sifuna-og_image-768x603.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) has begun the formal gazettement process to change The Equitable Party (TEP) to Linda Mwananchi Movement (LMM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter dated October 13, 2026, Registrar of Political Parties John Lorionokou said the office had reviewed the party&#8217;s submitted documents supporting the proposed name change and had commenced the gazettement process under Section 20(1)(d) of the Political Parties Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The documents were submitted through a letter dated October 8, 2026, and included a resolution by the party\u2019s National Executive Committee (NEC) approving the change of name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) has begun the formal gazettement process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}