{"id":26478,"date":"2018-12-22T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2018-12-22T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T00:22:21","slug":"low-voter-turnout-in-togo-after-boycott-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26478","title":{"rendered":"Low voter turnout in Togo after boycott call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"62.8571428571\">\n<p>Voter turnout was low in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/togo.html\">Togo<\/a> after calls by opposition and religious leaders for a boycott of parliamentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/election.html\">elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least four people have been killed during protests in the capital Lome and other cities during weeks of anti-government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/protests.html\">protests<\/a>, but election day was calm under a heavy military presence.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Union for the Republic party is expected to maintain its parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Paul Chaderjian reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voter turnout was low in Togo after calls by opposition and religious leaders for a boycott of parliamentary elections. At least four people have been killed during protests in the capital Lome and other cities during weeks of anti-government protests, but election day was calm under a heavy military presence. The ruling Union for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26478","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\/26478","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=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}