{"id":45021,"date":"2022-04-10T19:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=45021"},"modified":"2022-04-10T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:22:00","slug":"first-round-of-french-presidential-elections-voting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/04\/10\/first-round-of-french-presidential-elections-voting-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"First round of French presidential elections&#8217; voting begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Polls opened across France for the first round of the country&#8217;s presidential election, where eligible voters will be choosing one of 12 candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most prominent candidates are President Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking a second five-year term, with a strong challenge from the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, and the far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polls suggest Macron will come first, ahead of Le Pen, as in the 2017 elections, while the radical leftist candidate Melenchon comes third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless someone gets more than half of the nationwide vote, there will be a second and decisive round on Sunday, 24th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls opened across France for the first round of the country&#8217;s presidential election, where eligible voters will be choosing one of 12 candidates. The most prominent candidates are President Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking a second five-year term, with a strong challenge from the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, and the far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45023,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021\/revisions\/45023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}