{"id":58880,"date":"2019-04-11T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=58880"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:23:41","slug":"algeria-sets-presidential-election-for-4-july-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/algeria-sets-presidential-election-for-4-july-after-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria sets presidential election for 4 July after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Algeria  will hold presidential elections on 4 July, interim leader Abdelkader  Bensalah has announced.Algeria will head to the polls in July, the  presidency announced on Wednesday, as demonstrators kept up protests  against the ruling elite following veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika&#8217;s  resignation. Demonstrations continued on Wednesday, with more expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n new date was set a day after Abdelkader Bensalah assumed office for a \n90-day period, as stipulated by the constitution but much to the ire of \ndemonstrators. The appointment of upper house speaker Bensalah as \nAlgeria&#8217;s first new president in 20 years failed to meet the demands of \ndemonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Bensalah had pledged to hold free elections \nwithin 90 days in line with the country&#8217;s constitution, but many see the\n 77-year-old as too close to the former president.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria will hold presidential elections on 4 July, interim leader Abdelkader Bensalah has announced.Algeria will head to the polls in July, the presidency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58880","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\/58880","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=58880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58882,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58880\/revisions\/58882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}