{"id":71978,"date":"2019-10-07T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=71978"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:47:21","slug":"mauritius-pm-dissolves-parliament-announces-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mauritius-pm-dissolves-parliament-announces-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius PM dissolves parliament, announces elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth dissolved the parliament. In a video statement, Pravind Kumar announced that the island nation will hold general election on November seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By law, the country has between 30 and 150 days to organise elections after the prime minister dissolves parliament.The country, a popular tourist destination and one of Africa&#8217;s most stable nations, holds elections every five years, with the last one in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had in 2017 succeeded his father Anerood Jugnauth, who was prime minister, president or opposition leader from 1976 before stepping down in 2016 at age 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The island nation of 1.3 million inhabitants, considered one of Africa&#8217;s most stable democracies, won independence from Britain in 1968.Its economy is based on tourism, financial services and exports of sugar and textiles.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth dissolved the parliament. In a video statement, Pravind Kumar announced that the island nation will hold general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71978","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\/71978","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=71978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71980,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71978\/revisions\/71980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}