{"id":27027,"date":"2012-10-17T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27027"},"modified":"2012-10-17T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:02:48","slug":"plp-easily-wins-by-election-adds-to-its-big-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/plp-easily-wins-by-election-adds-to-its-big-majority","title":{"rendered":"PLP Wins By-Election, Adding To Big Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/plp-easily-wins-by-election-adds-to-its-big-majority-27027.html\/by-election\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27028\" title=\"by-election\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/by-election.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/by-election.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/by-election-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie&#8217;s party added to its big parliamentary majority by easily winning a by-election in his former rival&#8217;s district.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials said Tuesday that preliminary results show that Renardo Curry of Christie&#8217;s Progressive Liberal Party dominated the contest on Abaco island.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday by-election fills the seat of former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham. He held it for 35 years, but stepped down earlier this year after Christie&#8217;s party swept his Free National Movement from power.<\/p>\n<p>Christie described it as a &#8220;magnificent win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Ingraham conceded defeat on behalf of his party, he has also alleged that the ruling party &#8220;intimidated&#8221; voters. He is offering no specifics, however.<\/p>\n<p>Christie has dismissed Ingraham&#8217;s accusations as &#8220;absolute stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s party now controls 30 of the 38 parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie&#8217;s party added to its big parliamentary majority by easily winning a by-election in his former rival&#8217;s district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[5],"tags":[516,74,60],"class_list":["post-27027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-by-elections","tag-fnm","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}