{"id":58165,"date":"2019-04-01T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=58165"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:09:01","slug":"zuzana-caputova-becomes-slovakias-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/zuzana-caputova-becomes-slovakias-first-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuzana Caputova becomes Slovakia&#8217;s first female President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia&#8217;s presidential election, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caputova, a pro-EU political novice who will be the euro zone country&#8217;s first female president, had 58.3 percent of the votes after results from 98.1 percent of voting districts were counted, ahead of European commissioner Maros Sefcovic who took 41.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caputova, who was the front runner having won the first round more than 20 percentage points ahead of Sefcovic, campaigned to end what she calls the capture of the state &#8220;by people pulling strings from behind,&#8221; a message that opinion polls show resonates with younger, educated voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 45-year old member of a liberal non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia party &#8212; which she pledged to leave if elected has been endorsed by opposition parties and a junior party in the ruling coalition that represents the ethnic Hungarian minority, as well as outgoing President Andrej Kiska.<\/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>Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia&#8217;s presidential election, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent. Caputova, a pro-EU political novice who will be the euro zone country&#8217;s first female president, had 58.3 percent of the votes after results from [&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":58166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58165","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\/58165","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=58165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58167,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions\/58167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}