{"id":44529,"date":"2018-10-16T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44529"},"modified":"2018-10-16T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:44:13","slug":"disappearing-ink-led-to-my-loss-maldives-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/disappearing-ink-led-to-my-loss-maldives-prez\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disappearing ink\u2019 led to my loss: Maldives Prez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo<br \/>\nOutgoing Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has told the Supreme Court that disappearing ink and specially treated ballot papers were to blame for his heavy election defeat last month.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as the court considered a petition by Yameen to have the September 23 election result annulled due to what his party called \u201crampant\u201d vote-rigging.On Monday afternoon, the five-judge bench put off the case until Tuesday when it will announce whether to allow testimony from three unnamed witness named by Yameen\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers told a packed court room that the trio of yet unnamed witnesses could substantiate Yameen\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo Outgoing Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has told the Supreme Court that disappearing ink and specially treated ballot papers were to blame for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44531,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44529\/revisions\/44531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}