{"id":119247,"date":"2021-04-19T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119247"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:22:49","slug":"cape-verde-holds-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119247","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde holds parliamentary election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/9d0d303\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2F31%2Fabbedb1874f810dcb8b0901e45ffb3%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH3H0AW%3A12021-04-18T161205Z_1_LYNXMPEH3H0AW_RTROPTP_3_UN-ASSEMBLY-CAPE-VERDE.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Cape Verde Prime Minister Jose Ulisses Correia e Silva <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRAIA, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;Cape Verde held parliamentary elections on Sunday, with ruling party Movement For Democracy (MpD) pitted against its main challenger, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cluster of 10 volcanic islands 570 km off Senegal, Cape Verde stands out as a pocket of relative stability in the region, having held democratic elections since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a quarter of the economy reliant on tourism and travel-related industries, coronavirus restrictions at home and abroad pushed Cape Verde into recession last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the previous government MpD controlled 40 of the 72-seat legislature, compared to PAICV&#8217;s 29. International observers said the last elections in 2016 were largely free and fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winning party will form a government and nominate a prime minister, who holds most executive authority in the country and is formally appointed by the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results are expected to be announced on Monday afternoon. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Verde Prime Minister Jose Ulisses Correia e Silva PRAIA, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;Cape Verde held parliamentary elections on Sunday, with ruling party Movement For Democracy (MpD) pitted against its main challenger, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). A cluster of 10 volcanic islands 570 km off Senegal, Cape Verde stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}