{"id":42455,"date":"2022-03-15T19:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/turkmenistan-strongmans-son-wins-presidential-vote"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:53:15","slug":"turkmenistan-strongmans-son-wins-presidential-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42455","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan strongman&#8217;s son wins presidential vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serdar Berdymukhamedov won Saturday\u2019s ballot, officials said, but with lower victory margin than his father<\/p>\n<p>The son of Turkmenistan\u2019s autocrat leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has won a decisive victory in the presidential election, officials have said, paving the way for hereditary succession in one of the world\u2019s most tightly controlled countries.<\/p>\n<p>Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 40, won the ballot held last Saturday with 73% of the vote, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said on its website.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/turkmenistan-strongmans-son-wins-presidential-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serdar Berdymukhamedov won Saturday\u2019s ballot, officials said, but with lower victory margin than his fatherThe son of Turkmenistan\u2019s autocrat leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has won a decisive victory in the presidential election, officials have sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[318,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkmenistan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42455\/revisions\/42456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}