{"id":24755,"date":"2020-01-23T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=24755"},"modified":"2020-01-23T19:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:26:52","slug":"preparing-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/preparing-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>Editorial<\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By <\/strong><strong>T.P. Saran<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a fact that the MSM garnered \u2018only\u2019 33% of the vote share as its adversaries would point out \u2013 but that is the First Past The Post system which is institutionalized in our electoral system. The point though, is that the any party which makes its way to Government House on that narrow electoral score cannot rest on its laurels and hope for another win five years hence on a similar proportion of the votes\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>READ MORE IN OUR PRINT EDITION<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Available at all newsagents<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 24 January 2020<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":24759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Parlement.jpg?fit=1067%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-6rh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}