{"id":38805,"date":"2023-02-07T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-to-open-parliament-on-tuesday"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:45:08","slug":"geingob-to-open-parliament-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-to-open-parliament-on-tuesday","title":{"rendered":"Geingob to open parliament on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>President Hage Geingob will on Tuesday next week officially open the seventh session of the seventh parliament, National Assembly speaker Peter Katjavivi announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Katjavivi said in a statement that the annual ceremonial event on parliament&#8217;s calendar will take place under the theme: &#8216;Enhancing Namibia&#8217;s Parliamentary Democracy Post Covid-19&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past few years, parliament was forced to scale down on the activities that are normally associated with this opening ceremony due to Covid-19. 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