{"id":7951,"date":"2014-02-21T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2014-02-21T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:33:54","slug":"ayatollah-bashir-al-najafi-prohibits-attracting-voters-by-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/ayatollah-bashir-al-najafi-prohibits-attracting-voters-by-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Bashir Al-Najafi prohibits attracting voters by money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Shia religious authority, Ayatollah Bashir Al-Najafi has issued a fatwa in the run up to the upcoming Iraqi elections prohibiting nominees from attracting voters with pay-offs.<\/p>\n<p>In the edict, Ayatollah Al-Najafi stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;The nominees are not allowed to attract the voters by money and the voters are banned from receiving the money because they will contribute in spreading corruption in the State.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In previous elections there were reported cases of political parties gifting money in order to persuade voters to chose their candidate at the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Shia religious authority, Ayatollah Bashir Al-Najafi has issued a fatwa in the run up to the upcoming Iraqi elections prohibiting nominees from attracting voters with pay-offs. In the edict, Ayatollah Al-Najafi stated: &#8220;The nominees are not allowed to attract the voters by money and the voters are banned from receiving the money because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[177,176,162,178,179,163],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news","tag-bashir-al-najafi","tag-bashir-najafi","tag-headline","tag-iraq-elections","tag-najaf","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}