{"id":5685,"date":"2013-06-19T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:50:19","slug":"mugabe-seeks-to-delay-zim-elections-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5685","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe seeks to delay Zim elections &#8211; minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2222\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/robert-mugabe2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2222\" alt=\"Robert Mugabe\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/robert-mugabe2-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/robert-mugabe2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/robert-mugabe2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Mugabe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country&#8217;s top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told AFP he had filed papers &#8220;yesterday (Tuesday)&#8221; that sought &#8220;a postponement of the date for the harmonised elections from July 31 2013 to August 14, 2013.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country&#8217;s top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister said Wednesday. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told AFP he had filed papers &#8220;yesterday (Tuesday)&#8221; that sought &#8220;a postponement of the date for the harmonised elections from July 31 2013 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5685\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mugabe seeks to delay Zim elections &#8211; minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[3289,1018,644,180],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-delay","tag-elections","tag-mugabe","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/robert-mugabe2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}