{"id":101922,"date":"2024-11-11T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/mauritius-prime-minister-accepts-huge-defeat-in-election\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:02:54","slug":"mauritius-prime-minister-accepts-huge-defeat-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mauritius-prime-minister-accepts-huge-defeat-in-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius prime minister accepts \u2018huge defeat\u2019 in election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L\u2019Alliance Lepep, has suffered a \u201chuge defeat\u201d following Sunday\u2019s parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe population has decided to choose another team,\u201d Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth told journalists on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jugnauth was seeking a second five-year term, but his main rival, Navin Ramgoolam, leader of the Alliance of Change coalition, looks set to become the next leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius is known as one of Africa\u2019s most stable democracies but this election was tainted by a phone-tapping scandal with leaked recordings of public figures posted online.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the government issued a social media ban until after the election, although this led to an outcry and the decision was reversed within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Final results are yet to be released but Ramgoolam\u2019s party looks set to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must respect this choice\u2026 and we wish the country and the population good luck,\u201d said Jugnauth.<\/p>\n<p>The vote comes after a\u00a0historic agreement\u00a0in which the UK gave up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L\u2019Alliance Lepep, has suffered a \u201chuge defeat\u201d following Sunday\u2019s parliamentary election. \u201cThe population has decided to choose another team,\u201d Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth told journalists on Monday. Jugnauth was seeking a second five-year term, but his main rival, Navin Ramgoolam, leader of the Alliance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}