{"id":45095,"date":"2018-10-22T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=45095"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:56:54","slug":"maldives-sc-rejects-president-yameens-petition-to-annul-sept-23-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/maldives-sc-rejects-president-yameens-petition-to-annul-sept-23-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives SC rejects President Yameen\u2019s petition to annul Sept 23 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives Supreme Court has rejected President Abdulla Yameen\u2019s petition to annul the September 23 election.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous ruling, the court on Sunday denied the president\u2019s request to oversee a police or military probe into alleged vote-rigging and electoral fraud.<\/p>\n<p>It ruled that there is no legal or constitutional basis to question the legality of the election based on the evidence submitted.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court said the president\u2019s lawyers failed to prove any electoral fraud despite claiming mass electoral fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Yameen challenged his election defeat despite conceding hours after provisional results showed he lost by a record margin to opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamad Solih.<\/p>\n<p>According to his petition, a pen with disappearing ink was left at the voting booth and a chemical was applied to make the checkmark disappear in the square next to his name.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives Supreme Court has rejected President Abdulla Yameen\u2019s petition to annul the September 23 election. In a unanimous ruling, the court on Sunday denied the president\u2019s request to oversee a police or military probe into alleged vote-rigging and electoral fraud. It ruled that there is no legal or constitutional basis to question the legality of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45095","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\/45095","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=45095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45097,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions\/45097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}