{"id":40756,"date":"2019-09-06T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40756"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:11:25","slug":"russia-united-candidates-contest-as-independents-in-moscow-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40756","title":{"rendered":"Russia United candidates contest as independents in Moscow polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>When voters in Moscow head to the polls in the city election on Sunday, their ballot papers won&#8217;t show a single candidate running on the ticket of President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s United Russia party.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they will be contesting as independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes on the back of declining popularity for United Russia and large protests against a ban blocking some opposition politicians from running.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Step Vaessen reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When voters in Moscow head to the polls in the city election on Sunday, their ballot papers won&#8217;t show a single candidate running on the ticket of President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s United Russia party. Instead, they will be contesting as independent candidates. The move comes on the back of declining popularity for United Russia and large&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40756","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\/40756","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=40756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}