{"id":31368,"date":"2023-05-02T19:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oas-says-no-reason\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:44:08","slug":"oas-says-no-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oas-says-no-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"OAS says no reason to put into doubt Paraguay&#8217;s election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     The Organization of American States (OAS) said on Tuesday that its electoral observation mission saw no reason to put into doubt Paraguay&#8217;s election results, following protests by supporters of a right-wing candidate who came in third.<\/p>\n<p>The statement follows clashes on Monday between police and supporters of Paraguayo Cubas amid complaints of fraud in a vote that the ruling Colorado Party won comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Santiago Pena won 43% of the vote on Sunday compared with 27% for runner-up Efrain Alegre. Cubas, who surprised observers by winning nearly 23%, called in a post on Instagram for a recount and asked his supporters to protest.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Carolina Pulice; Editing by Sarah Morland)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oas-says-no-reason\/scattered-protests-emerge-in-paraguay-against-election-result-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410SL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410SL-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Organization of American States (OAS) said on Tuesday that its electoral observation mission saw no reason to put into doubt Paraguay&#8217;s election results, following protests by supporters of a right-wing candidate who came in third. The statement follows clashes on Monday between police and supporters of Paraguayo Cubas amid complaints of fraud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410SL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31370,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368\/revisions\/31370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}