{"id":13511,"date":"2018-09-01T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13511"},"modified":"2018-09-01T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T16:25:55","slug":"mexico-politics-left-wing-majority-to-lead-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13511","title":{"rendered":"Mexico politics: Left-wing majority to lead Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"72\">\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s Congress is opening up its first legislative session under President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Morena party.<\/p>\n<p>This Congress looks different than its predecessors; there is a left-wing clear majority and as many female as male legislators for the first time in Mexico&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The new government is expected to tackle several new policies, from anti-corruption measures to energy reform.<\/p>\n<p>But it is political salaries and privileges that are expected to be the big target, with Morena berating a &#8220;rich, out-of-touch&#8221; political class during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s John Holman reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#8217;s Congress is opening up its first legislative session under President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Morena party. This Congress looks different than its predecessors; there is a left-wing clear majority and as many female as male legislators for the first time in Mexico&#8217;s history. The new government is expected to tackle several new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}