{"id":18124,"date":"2018-10-12T03:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18124"},"modified":"2018-10-12T03:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:25:18","slug":"are-merkels-allies-set-to-lose-majority-in-bavaria-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18124","title":{"rendered":"Are Merkel&#8217;s allies set to lose majority in Bavaria elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>Polls indicate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s Bavarian allies are heading for their worst showing in state elections in over 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Social Union, which has governed Bavaria for most of the post-war period, looks set to lose its majority in Sunday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a booming economy, one issue has dominated the campaign: Immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Dominic Kane reports from Bavaria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls indicate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s Bavarian allies are heading for their worst showing in state elections in over 60 years. The Christian Social Union, which has governed Bavaria for most of the post-war period, looks set to lose its majority in Sunday&#8217;s vote. Despite a booming economy, one issue has dominated the campaign:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18124","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\/18124","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=18124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}