{"id":5779,"date":"2004-01-09T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/mejia-guarantees-free-elections\/"},"modified":"2004-01-09T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T01:43:56","slug":"mejia-guarantees-free-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/01\/09\/mejia-guarantees-free-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mejia guarantees free elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When questioned on the TV program &#8220;El Dia&#8221; about the possibility of electoral fraud, the head of state said: &#8220;I am convinced that nothing is going to happen. That phase has been overcome in this country, fortunately.&#8221; He mentioned that the government has allotted the Central Electoral Board a budget of RD$1.83 billion to organize the election this year, which is 157% more than what was granted last year. Mejia said that the only friend he has in the JCE is Judge Rafael Diaz Vasquez. He attributed people&#8217;s concern over electoral fraud to &#8220;the fear of some people who want to win with 1% &#8212; but that is not possible,&#8221; he said, as reported in the Listin Diario. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When questioned on the TV program &#8220;El Dia&#8221; about the possibility of electoral fraud, the head of state said: &#8220;I am convinced that nothing is going to happen. That phase has been overcome in this country, fortunately.&#8221; He mentioned that the government has allotted the Central Electoral Board a budget of RD$1.83 billion to organize &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/01\/09\/mejia-guarantees-free-elections\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779"}],"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=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}