{"id":282859,"date":"2024-11-12T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=282859"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:04:20","slug":"update-mauritius-parliamentary-election-opposition-leader-claims-crushing-60-0-vote-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=282859","title":{"rendered":"Update Mauritius parliamentary election: Opposition leader claims crushing 60-0 vote win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2024\/11\/12\/image-222850-1731385227.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PORT LOUIS, Nov 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam declared on Tuesday that his alliance had won a crushing election victory over the ruling coalition, after Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth conceded he faced a &#8220;huge defeat&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramgoolam, a two-time former prime minister, told crowds of cheering supporters in his constituency that his Alliance of Change had made a clean sweep of parliamentary seats on the island of Mauritius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I hope PKJ resigns soon. He was beaten 60-0,&#8221; Ramgoolam said, referring to Jugnauth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The power of the people is stronger than a dictatorship,&#8221; the 77-year-old added to boisterous cheers and blaring horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 60 National Assembly seats up for grabs on the island of Mauritius and another two on Rodrigues in Sunday&#8217;s election. The remaining eight are allocated under what is dubbed the &#8220;best loser&#8221; system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Final results have yet to be officially released from the vote in what is considered one of Africa&#8217;s richest and most stable democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Jugnauth had said on Monday that his Lepep alliance, led by his Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), was &#8220;heading towards a huge defeat&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner-takes-all election model means single coalitions often dominate the 70-seat parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only last month, Jugnauth, who has been in office since 2017, was celebrating a historic deal with Britain that gives Mauritius regain sovereignty over the Chagos Islands after a long-running dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the vote was overshadowed by an explosive wire-tapping scandal, when secretly recorded phone calls of politicians, diplomats, members of civil society and journalists were leaked online. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT LOUIS, Nov 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam declared on Tuesday that his alliance had won a crushing election victory over the ruling coalition, after Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth conceded he faced a &#8220;huge defeat&#8221;. Ramgoolam, a two-time former prime minister, told crowds of cheering supporters in his constituency that his Alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":282860,"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\/282859"}],"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=282859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282861,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282859\/revisions\/282861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}