{"id":5897,"date":"2014-04-08T22:08:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2014-04-08T22:08:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:08:49","slug":"elections-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5897","title":{"rendered":"Elections here and there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5898\" alt=\"Quebec-Canada\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Quebec-Canada-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Yesterday, the good citizens of Quebec sent a clear message to the sovereignist Parti Quebecois: they said no to a possible referendum, and no to the divisive politics of the PQ&#8217;s proposed &#8220;charter of values&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The day before yesterday, the good citizens of Hungary sent a clear message to the &#8220;Viktator&#8221;, Hungary&#8217;s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban, about his nationalist politics, disastrous &#8220;unconventional&#8221; economic policies, and systematic abuse of his two-thirds constitutional supermajority to weaken Hungary&#8217;s fledgling democratic institutions. &#8220;More please,&#8221; was the message as voters gave Mr. Orban another strong mandate, possibly another supermajority.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say? Je suis reconnaissant d&#8217;\u00eatre Canadien. Even if my knowledge of French is shamefully limited.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5897' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the good citizens of Quebec sent a clear message to the sovereignist Parti Quebecois: they said no to a possible referendum, and no to the divisive politics of the PQ&#8217;s proposed &#8220;charter of values&#8221;. The day before yesterday, the good citizens of Hungary sent a clear message to the &#8220;Viktator&#8221;, Hungary&#8217;s autocratic Prime Minister <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5897' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-hungary","category-politics","category-22-id","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}