{"id":54754,"date":"2023-05-01T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/30\/polls-close-uzbekistan-referendum-shavkat-mirziyoyev"},"modified":"2023-05-01T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:42:13","slug":"uzbekistan-votes-on-clause-that-could-extend-presidents-rule-to-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54754","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan votes on clause that could extend president\u2019s rule to 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overhaul of constitution would include allowing Shavkat Mirziyoyev to stay in power <\/p>\n<p>Polls have closed across Uzbekistan, ending a day of voting in the central Asian nation in a constitutional referendum that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to remain in power until 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Voting stations closed at 8pm (3pm GMT), after being open for 12 hours. The Election Commission has to announce the result within 10 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/30\/polls-close-uzbekistan-referendum-shavkat-mirziyoyev\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overhaul of constitution would include allowing Shavkat Mirziyoyev to stay in power Polls have closed across Uzbekistan, ending a day of voting in the central Asian nation in a constitutional referendum that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[61,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uzbekistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54754","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54754\/revisions\/54755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}