{"id":19788,"date":"2012-06-16T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2012-06-16T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T11:04:15","slug":"egyptians-vote-in-presidential-run-off-19788","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/egyptians-vote-in-presidential-run-off-19788\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptians Vote in Presidential Run-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/egyptians-vote-presidential.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19789\" title=\"Egyptians Vote in Presidential Run-Off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/egyptians-vote-presidential-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/egyptians-vote-presidential-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/egyptians-vote-presidential-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/egyptians-vote-presidential.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Egyptians are going to the polls in the second round of presidential elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down by an uprising in February last year.<\/h1>\n<p>Mohammed Mursi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s Freedom and Justice Party, is running against Ahmed Shafiq, last prime minister during Mubarak\u2019s rule. Both candidates have vowed to restore stability and security to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is due to hand over to the new president on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>But the run-up to the election, which will continue on Sunday, has been marred in controversy after the Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved parliament on Thursday. The Court ruled that the law governing last year&#8217;s parliamentary elections was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Mursi&#8217;s Freedom and Justice Party controlled nearly half of the seats in the 508-member People&#8217;s Assembly, which has been in session for just over four months.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptians are going to the polls in the second round of presidential elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down by an uprising in February last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,30,80,63,14],"tags":[25255,25257,14601,25258,25259,25256,257],"class_list":["post-19788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-world","tag-egyptians","tag-egyptians-vote-in-presidential","tag-hosni-mubarak","tag-mohammed-mursi","tag-mubarak","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}