{"id":194174,"date":"2017-05-10T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T01:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/fnm-secures-landslide-victory"},"modified":"2017-05-12T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:29:52","slug":"fnm-secures-landslide-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/05\/fnm-secures-landslide-victory","title":{"rendered":"FNM Secures Landslide Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FNM20WINS-MINNIS20VICTORY.jpeg\" alt=\"FNM secures landslide victory\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leader of the Free National Movement Dr. Hubert Minnis addresses a crowd of supporters at last night&#8217;s victory rally. Photo: Torrell Glinton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what is the worst defeat of a governing party in recent history, the Bahamian people landed a crushing blow to the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) at the polls Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great victory for you,\u201d Minnis told the jubilant crowd gathered at the carnival grounds for the victory rally. \u201cNever, ever allow the politicians to be in charge again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Prime Minister Perry Christie suffered a painful loss in the constituency he represented for four decades.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first prime minister to lose his seat.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/news\/73150-fnm-secures-landslide-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the complete article at www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is the worst defeat of a governing party in recent history, the Bahamian people landed a crushing blow to the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) at the polls Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":194176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}