{"id":91613,"date":"2019-05-05T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/05\/north-macedonia-goes-to-the-polls-amid-rain-and-rancour\/"},"modified":"2019-05-05T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:01:22","slug":"north-macedonia-goes-to-the-polls-amid-rain-and-rancour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=91613","title":{"rendered":"North Macedonia goes to the polls amid rain and rancour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic and political divisions may affect turnout in former Yugoslav republic\u2019s presidential electionVoters in North Macedonia braving heavy rain have begun casting ballots in the second round of a race that will not only decide the country\u2019s new president, but could determine whether the tiny state is plunged into political turmoil.In what has become a showdown between pro-EU and nationalist forces, much depends on turnout. Before polling stations opened, speculation was rife that voter participation could fall below the 40% needed for the election to be valid, fears compounded by the weather. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/05\/north-macedonia-goes-to-the-polls-amid-rain-and-rancour\" target=\"_blank\">North Macedonia goes to the polls amid rain and rancour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic and political divisions may affect turnout in former Yugoslav republic\u2019s presidential electionVoters in North Macedonia braving heavy rain have begun casting ballots in the second round of a race that will not only decide the country\u2019s new president, but could determine whether the tiny state is plunged into political [&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-91613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91613","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=91613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}