{"id":263187,"date":"2022-04-25T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=263187"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:57:35","slug":"modi-congratulates-friend-macron-on-being-re-elected-as-french-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/modi-congratulates-friend-macron-on-being-re-elected-as-french-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi congratulates &#8216;friend&#8217; Macron on being re-elected as French President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated his &#8220;friend&#8221; Emmanuel Macron on being re-elected as the President of France for a second five-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking to Twitter, Modi said: &#8220;Congratulations to my friend Emmanuel Macron on being re-elected as the President of France! I look forward to continue working together to deepen the India-France Strategic Partnership.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the run-off presidential election held on Sunday, Macron secured 18,779,641 votes (58.54 per cent) against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, who got 13,297,760 votes (41.46 per cent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The margin of Macron&#8217;s win was narrower than five years ago, when he attracted 66 per cent of votes to the same opponent&#8217;s 34 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the first time since Jacques Chirac of the right-of-centre Republican party in 2002, that a sitting president has been granted dual terms by French voters, whose preferences have been quite volatile in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated his &#8220;friend&#8221; Emmanuel Macron on being re-elected as the President of France for a second five-year term. Taking to Twitter, Modi said: &#8220;Congratulations to my friend Emmanuel Macron on being re-elected as the President of France! I look forward to continue working together to deepen the India-France Strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}