{"id":54934,"date":"2026-07-22T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=54934"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:18:26","slug":"president-kiir-signs-constitutional-amendment-clearing-legal-path-for-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=54934","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Signs Constitutional Amendment, Clearing Legal Path For Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.has-drop-cap:first-letter{font-size:4em;line-height:0.8;font-weight:bold;float:left;padding-right:8px;color:#DC2626}<\/style>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">We begin at the State House, where President Salva Kiir has signed the Constitutional Amendment to the Revitalised Peace Agreement Amendment 2026 after parliamentary ratification, clearing a major legal obstacles ahead of the country&#x27;s post-independence elections scheduled for December this year. Additionally, the Abyei Chief Administrator and the Deputy Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State updates the President on the situation in their respective jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>This report has been compiled, analyzed, and presented by the editorial team at Juba Global News Network. Juba Global News Network is your trusted source for news, analysis, and coverage of South Sudan and the African continent.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:30px 0;padding:20px;background:#f8f9fa;border-radius:8px;text-align:center\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 15px;font-size:16px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Stay Connected with Juba Global News Network<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:12px;justify-content:center;flex-wrap:wrap\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@jubaglobal?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;padding:12px 24px;background:#FF0000;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:6px;font-weight:600;font-size:14px\">&#9654; Subscribe on YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jubaglobal\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;padding:12px 24px;background:#1877F2;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:6px;font-weight:600;font-size:14px\">&#128077; Follow on Facebook<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We begin at the State House, where President Salva Kiir has signed the Constitutional Amendment to the Revitalised Peace Agreement Amendment 2026 after parliamentary ratification, clearing a major legal obstacles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-of-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54936,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934\/revisions\/54936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}