{"id":28638,"date":"2019-01-11T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28638"},"modified":"2019-01-11T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:22:40","slug":"congos-catholic-church-rejects-election-results-as-opposition-leader-felix-tshisekedi-lands-surprise-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28638","title":{"rendered":"Congo&#8217;s Catholic Church rejects election results as opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi lands surprise win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Goma, Congo (CNN)<\/cite>The Congo&#8217;s Catholic Church has rejected the results of the Central African nation&#8217;s presidential election, saying they don&#8217;t match the data collected by its observers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">There was widespread surprise Thursday after the Democratic Republic of the Congo&#8217;s electoral commission announced that opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi had won the presidency. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Another opposition leader, Martin Faluyu, who was widely expected to be victorious, categorically rejected the outcome and called for the winner to be &#8220;the person who really was our people&#8217;s choice.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goma, Congo (CNN)The Congo&#8217;s Catholic Church has rejected the results of the Central African nation&#8217;s presidential election, saying they don&#8217;t match the data collected by its observers.There was widespread surprise Thursday after the Democratic Republic of the Congo&#8217;s electoral commission announced that opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi had won the presidency. Another opposition leader, Martin Faluyu,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638","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=28638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}