{"id":8826,"date":"2018-07-29T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2018-07-29T12:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T19:17:02","slug":"hun-sen-re-elected-in-landslide-victory-in-cambodia-prime-minister-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8826","title":{"rendered":"Hun Sen re-elected in landslide victory in Cambodia prime minister election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia\u2019s prime minister,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/28\/cambodian-pm-hun-sen-fully-fledged-military-dictator-says-report?CMP=share_btn_tw\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Hun Sen<\/a>, has won a landslide election victory, a result that was seen as a foregone conclusion after a months-long brutal crackdown destroyed all opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s chief government spokesman confirmed the results on Sunday evening, saying the ruling Cambodian People&#8217;s Party (CPP) had won an estimated 100 out of 125 parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n<p>The election, widely condemned as a sham by human rights groups and political observers, saw Hun Sen, who has ruled\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cambodia\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Cambodia<\/a>\u00a0for 33 years, re-elected with an estimated 80% of the vote, with his party, the CPP, taking at least 100 of 125 parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia\u2019s prime minister,\u00a0Hun Sen, has won&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}