{"id":6607,"date":"2021-01-10T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=148242"},"modified":"2021-01-10T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:54:00","slug":"kyrgyzstan-votes-in-presidential-election-amid-extreme-cold-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/10\/kyrgyzstan-votes-in-presidential-election-amid-extreme-cold-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan Votes In Presidential Election Amid Extreme Cold, Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/9ddcdc3d-a168-4225-b619-f22e5206ad2f_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kyrgyz citizens went to the polls on January 10 in an election that is expected to confirm nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov&#8217;s hold on power. Voters are also choosing between the current parliamentary system and a presidential system in a referendum. There were technical glitches and delays at some polling stations, including at a university in Bishkek, where officials blamed extreme cold for malfunctioning voting machines. The cold weather was also blamed for low turnout.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/10\/kyrgyzstan-votes-in-presidential-election-amid-extreme-cold-delays\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyz citizens went to the polls on January 10 in an election that is expected to confirm nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov\u2019s hold on power. Voters are also choosing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,4,23,76,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}