{"id":80886,"date":"2025-10-28T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80886"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:44:42","slug":"benins-main-opposition-party-barred-from-2026-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/benins-main-opposition-party-barred-from-2026-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin\u2019s main opposition party barred from 2026 presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1PlFvR.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=247&amp;y=139&amp;s=245&amp;d=245\" alt=\"Benin President Patrice Talon listens to French President Emmanuel Macron after a signing ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the West African republic of B\u00e9nin, the constitutional court has ruled to exclude the principal opposition party, Les D\u00e9mocrates, from participating in the upcoming 2026 presidential election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/benin-s-main-opposition-party-barred-from-2026-presidential-race\/ar-AA1PldY0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=690111d7dbba493dbda74db9186c402d&amp;ei=28\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In the West African republic of B\u00e9nin, the constitutional court has ruled to exclude the principal opposition party, Les D\u00e9mocrates, from participating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/west-africa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80887,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80886\/revisions\/80887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}