{"id":23661,"date":"2018-11-29T06:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23661"},"modified":"2018-11-29T06:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:24:42","slug":"georgias-ruling-party-candidate-leads-in-presidential-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23661","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s ruling party candidate leads in presidential runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64\">\n<p>Preliminary results in Georgia&#8217;s presidential runoff show the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili is ahead with nearly 60 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s runoff is the last time Georgians will be able to directly elect their head of state &#8211; as the president will be diminished in the country&#8217;s new parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Robin Forestier-Walker reports from the capital, Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary results in Georgia&#8217;s presidential runoff show the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili is ahead with nearly 60 percent of the votes. Wednesday&#8217;s runoff is the last time Georgians will be able to directly elect their head of state &#8211; as the president will be diminished in the country&#8217;s new parliamentary democracy. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Robin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23661","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\/23661","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=23661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}