{"id":35899,"date":"2025-05-22T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=35899"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:53:57","slug":"kiir-directs-parliament-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/kiir-directs-parliament-to-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiir directs parliament to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jacob Onuha Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the National Assembly to reopen in the first week of June.<\/h3>\n<h3>This comes after a prolonged recess that has left the nation&#8217;s legislative agenda on hold for months.<\/h3>\n<p>The announcement, made after a meeting on Wednesday between the President and Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba, signals a renewed focus on addressing critical national issues, with the upcoming budget debate at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Nunu confirmed that upon its re-opening, the National Assembly will immediately prioritize deliberations on the national budget for the 2025-2026 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>This step is expected to lay the groundwork for tackling the country&#8217;s most pressing economic and development challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The re-opening of parliament signifies a new focus on national government and regional cooperation as the process of strengthening state institutions in the country continues.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly, which was established under the 2018 revitalized peace agreement to guide South Sudan&#8217;s transition, adjourned for a four-month recess in December and was originally slated to reconvene in early April.<\/p>\n<p>However, its reopening has been significantly delayed without official explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacob Onuha Nelson \u00a0 President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the National Assembly to reopen in the first week of June. This comes after a prolonged recess that has left the nation&#8217;s legislative agenda on hold for months. The announcement, made after a meeting on Wednesday between the President<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/kiir-directs-parliament-to-reopen\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Speaker-Jemma-Nunu-Kumba-and-President-Salva-Kiir-Mayardit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35901,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions\/35901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}