{"id":92181,"date":"2019-05-09T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/09\/the-system-used-to-elect-our-meps-is-more-complicated-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:43:41","slug":"the-system-used-to-elect-our-meps-is-more-complicated-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=92181","title":{"rendered":"The system used to elect our MEPs is more complicated than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU mandates systems of proportional representation be used to elect its Parliament, but leaves the detail to member states, as Sean O&#8217;Grady explains<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/independentminds\/news-analysis\/european-elections-voting-system-proportional-representation-a8883291.html\" target=\"_blank\">The system used to elect our MEPs is more complicated than you think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU mandates systems of proportional representation be used to elect its Parliament, but leaves the detail to member states, as Sean O&#8217;Grady explains Via: The system used to elect our MEPs is more complicated than you think<\/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-92181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92181","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=92181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}