{"id":16926,"date":"2014-06-25T22:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16926"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:54:06","slug":"ndp-leader-says-shes-not-stepping-down-after-disappointing-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/25\/ndp-leader-says-shes-not-stepping-down-after-disappointing-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP leader says she&#8217;s not stepping down after disappointing election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14470\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Andrea-Horwath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14470\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Andrea-Horwath.jpg\" alt=\"Leader of the Ontario NDP Andrea Horwath. Photo courtesy of Horwath's official Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Andrea-Horwath.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Andrea-Horwath-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leader of the Ontario NDP Andrea Horwath. Photo courtesy of Horwath&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she isn&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>She says she&#8217;s talked to many New Democrats and they still support her despite the party&#8217;s disappointing election results.<\/p>\n<p>Horwath triggered the June 12 election by declaring she couldn&#8217;t support the minority Liberal government&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals ended up winning a majority of seats, robbing the NDP of the balance of power in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor New Democrat Percy Hatfield says he still supports Horwath and doesn&#8217;t regret his party&#8217;s decision to trigger the election.<\/p>\n<p>Horwath is in a closed-door meeting with the other 20 members of her caucus for a debrief about the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she isn&#8217;t going anywhere. She says she&#8217;s talked to many New Democrats and they still &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}