{"id":89683,"date":"2019-04-22T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/22\/north-macedonia-presidential-election-goes-to-runoff-as-name-change-divides\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T01:00:12","slug":"north-macedonia-presidential-election-goes-to-runoff-as-name-change-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=89683","title":{"rendered":"North Macedonia presidential election goes to runoff as name change divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout in vote regarded as a fresh say on country\u2019s name change too low to deliver decisive result, say officials A presidential election in North Macedonia that gave voters another chance to express an opinion on their country\u2019s new name will go to a runoff after turnout in the first round was too low for any candidate to win outright, election officials said.The runoff on 5 May is inevitable because election law requires a candidate to get 50% plus one of registered voters to be elected in the first round. The state electoral commission reported the turnout on Sunday was 41.9%. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/22\/north-macedonia-presidential-election-goes-to-runoff-as-name-change-divides\" target=\"_blank\">North Macedonia presidential election goes to runoff as name change divides<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnout in vote regarded as a fresh say on country\u2019s name change too low to deliver decisive result, say officials A presidential election in North Macedonia that gave voters another chance to express an opinion on their country\u2019s new name will go to a runoff after turnout in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}