{"id":34052,"date":"2019-03-04T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34052"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:22:30","slug":"algerian-president-announces-plans-to-run-for-fifth-term-defying-protesters-demands-for-him-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34052","title":{"rendered":"Algerian President announces plans to run for fifth term, defying protesters&#8217; demands for him to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Algiers, Algeria (CNN)<\/cite>Embattled Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has declared his candidacy for next month&#8217;s election, defying massive protests in the country over the ailing and absent ruler&#8217;s refusal to relinquish his grip on power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 82-year-old leader suffered a stroke in 2013 and has rarely been seen in public since, but nonetheless plans to run for a fifth term, his campaign manager Abdelghani Zaalane said Sunday on national television.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Zaalane said Bouteflika would call for early elections, but only if he is elected again.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers, Algeria (CNN)Embattled Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has declared his candidacy for next month&#8217;s election, defying massive protests in the country over the ailing and absent ruler&#8217;s refusal to relinquish his grip on power.The 82-year-old leader suffered a stroke in 2013 and has rarely been seen in public since, but nonetheless plans to run for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34052","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\/34052","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=34052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}