{"id":48569,"date":"2025-12-01T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/st-lucia-votes-in-election-dominated-by-economy-crime-and-passport-sales\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:19:48","slug":"st-lucia-votes-in-election-dominated-by-economy-crime-and-passport-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/st-lucia-votes-in-election-dominated-by-economy-crime-and-passport-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"St Lucia votes in election dominated by economy, crime and passport sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">St Lucia votes in election dominated by economy, crime and passport sales<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Philip Pierre hopes to fend off challenge from former PM Allen Chastanet amid tense relations with USVoters in St Lucia have gone to the polls to elect a new legislature and choose their prime minister, in a race dominated by debates over economic management, violent crime and passport sales.The Labour party, led by the prime minister, Philip Pierre, is seeking to fend off a challenge from the conservative opposition leader, Allen Chastanet, who preceded Pierre as prime minister of the island of 180,000 people. Labour holds a strong majority in both of St Lucia\u2019s legislative chambers. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/st-lucia-votes-election-economy-crime-passport-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Philip+Pierre+hopes+to+fend+off+challenge+from+former+PM+Allen+Chastanet+amid+tense+relations+with+USVoters+in+St+Lucia+have+gone+to+the+polls+to+elect+a+new+legislature+and+choose+their+prime+ministe\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts St Lucia votes in election dominated by economy, crime and passport sales Philip Pierre hopes to fend off challenge from former PM Allen Chastanet amid tense relations with USVoters in St Lucia have gone to the polls to elect a new legislature and choose their prime minister, in a race dominated by debates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48570,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48569\/revisions\/48570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}