{"id":6878,"date":"2014-04-14T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T09:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2014-04-14T17:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T09:18:17","slug":"macedonias-president-seeks-second-term-in-election-the-countrys-5th-since-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/14\/macedonias-president-seeks-second-term-in-election-the-countrys-5th-since-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedonia&#8217;s president seeks second term in election, the country&#8217;s 5th since independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6956\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u01f4orge_Ivanov_2012-04-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6956\" alt=\"\u01f4orge Ivanov (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u01f4orge_Ivanov_2012-04-27.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u01f4orge_Ivanov_2012-04-27.jpg 430w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u01f4orge_Ivanov_2012-04-27-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u01f4orge Ivanov (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Date\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>SKOPJE, Macedonia &#8211; Macedonia&#8217;s president is seeking a second term in the Balkan country&#8217;s fifth election since gaining independence following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1.8 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots at 3,528 polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>President Gjorge Ivanov is seeking a second, five-year term. Opinion polls say he&#8217;s the clear front-runner. The 53-year-old Ivanov is supported by the ruling conservative VMRO-DPMNE party. His main opponent, 51-year-old Stevo Pendarovski, is the candidate of the opposition Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>If no candidate achieves an absolute majority, a runoff will be held April 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 SKOPJE, Macedonia &#8211; Macedonia&#8217;s president is seeking a second term in the Balkan country&#8217;s fifth election since gaining &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1786,621,280],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-election","tag-eu","tag-macedonia","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","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=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}