{"id":149853,"date":"2025-10-27T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=149853"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:50:49","slug":"an-independent-candidate-won-the-irish-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=149853","title":{"rendered":"An independent candidate won the Irish presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has won the Irish presidential election. Her main rival, Heather Humphreys of the centrist Fine Gael party, officially announced her victory, according to RTE.<br \/>\n&#8220;Catherine will be our president. She will be my president. I would like to wish her all the best. I have no regrets,&#8221; Humphreys said.<br \/>\nConnolly expressed her joy, speaking after the preliminary vote count.<br \/>\n&#8220;I want to thank everyone, even those who didn&#8217;t vote for me,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nHumphreys wished her opponent success and all the best in her new role.<br \/>\nWith 65% of the votes counted, Connolly has 64% of the vote, while Humphreys has 29%. Preliminary estimates put turnout at approximately 40% of the 3.6 million eligible voters.<br \/>\nDespite Fine Gael being part of the ruling coalition in Ireland, their candidate failed to beat an independent competitor in this election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has won the Irish presidential election. Her main rival, Heather Humphreys of the centrist Fine Gael party, officially announced her victory, according to RTE. &#8220;Catherine will be our president. She will be my president. I would like to wish her all the best. I have no regrets,&#8221; Humphreys said. Connolly expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149854,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149853\/revisions\/149854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}