{"id":4696,"date":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/candidates-cry-foul\/"},"modified":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","slug":"candidates-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/26\/candidates-cry-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates cry foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Diario Libre and the List?n Diario say that the<br \/>\nPRD leaders and aspiring candidates to the PRD presidential nomination were<br \/>\ntaken aback by President Mej?a?s vision of how the candidate should be selected,<br \/>\nas publicized in his proposal. They say that President Mej?a never alluded to a<br \/>\n?second round of voting? when he met with them. According to the group?s<br \/>\nspokesman, Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero, President Mej?a only said that if he did<br \/>\nnot obtain 50% of the votes at the convention, he would ?go home.?<br \/>\nRafael Suberv? Bonilla, Tourism Minister and one of the pre-candidates, echoed<br \/>\nEsquea?s statement as he told reporters he had heard ?nothing about a second<br \/>\nround (of voting).?<br \/>\nIn his press statement, Esquea Guerrero made no mention of a supposed proposal<br \/>\nto hand out government posts to the aspiring candidates if they stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>Esquea acted as host at the latest meeting of the presidential hopefuls, at<br \/>\nwhich he said the proposal was neither rejected nor accepted, but that it was<br \/>\nbeing considered.<br \/>\nThe president of the PRD, Hatuey De Camps, did not attend the meeting, as he is<br \/>\ncurrently travelling abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Diario Libre and the List?n Diario say that the PRD leaders and aspiring candidates to the PRD presidential nomination were taken aback by President Mej?a?s vision of how the candidate should be selected, as publicized in his proposal. They say that President Mej?a never alluded to a ?second round of voting? when he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/26\/candidates-cry-foul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}