{"id":632509,"date":"2010-01-16T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1046409"},"modified":"2010-01-16T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:17:08","slug":"south-sudanese-name-poll-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/632509","title":{"rendered":"South Sudanese name poll candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>South Sudanese name poll candidate<\/b><\/p>\n<p>South Sudan&#8217;s former rebels have chosen a northern Muslim as their candidate in April&#8217;s presidential election, the country&#8217;s first multiparty poll since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The candidacy of <b>Yassir Arman<\/b> was announced by the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement, which leads the government in the semi-autonomous south, on Friday after lengthy talks among party officials.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The political bureau have unanimously picked comrade Yassir Said Arman as SPLM presidential candidate for the republic of Sudan,&quot; Pagan Amum, the party&#8217;s secretary-general, said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Comrade Yassir Arman has been for a long-time freedom fighter, struggling in different fields for the SPLM.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has made tireless work to democratise the country and achieve a transition from totalitarian regime to democratic system of government in our country.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Arman will be challenging Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, the leader of the ruling National Congress Party and the sitting president since 1993.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudanese name poll candidate South Sudan&#8217;s former rebels have chosen a northern Muslim as their candidate in April&#8217;s presidential election, the country&#8217;s first multiparty poll since 1986. The candidacy of Yassir Arman was announced by the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement, which leads the government in the semi-autonomous south, on Friday after lengthy talks among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ExL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}