{"id":18868,"date":"2013-01-08T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/08\/282420\/slovenians-rally-anew-in-maribor\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T10:23:58","slug":"slovenians-rally-anew-in-maribor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/slovenians-rally-anew-in-maribor\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenians rally anew in Maribor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">The picture shows protesters in front of Maribor&#8217;s Municipal building, Slovenia on December 3, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Slovenian protesters once again rally in the city of Maribor to peacefully demand the dissolution of the city council, saying that a large majority of the city council members supported former mayor Franc Kangler, who is accused of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which was reportedly participated by some 2,000 people, took place on Monday near the city&#8217;s municipal building.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans such as \u201cLet&#8217;s sweep them out,\u201d the protesters called for the resignation of all city council members.<\/p>\n<p>Kangler resigned over corruption allegations last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In November, the mayor was also expelled from the Slovenian People&#8217;s Party, a junior partner in the conservative coalition, after a court in the country said that he used municipal funds for private purposes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA similar protest was held in the city on December 3, 2012. Police forces arrested some 40 people during the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>The recession-hit eurozone state has seen a wave of protests in recent weeks over public sector spending cuts and tough austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>The picture shows protesters in front of Maribor&#8217;s Municipal building, Slovenia on December 3, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Slovenian protesters once again rally in the city of Maribor to peacefully demand the dissolution of the city council, saying that a large majority of the city council members supported former mayor Franc Kangler, who is accused of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which was reportedly participated by some 2,000 people, took place on Monday near the city&#8217;s municipal building.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans such as &ldquo;Let&#8217;s sweep them out,&rdquo; the protesters called for the resignation of all city council members.<\/p>\n<p>Kangler resigned over corruption allegations last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In November, the mayor was also expelled from the Slovenian People&#8217;s Party, a junior partner in the conservative coalition, after a court in the country said that he used municipal funds for private purposes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA similar protest was held in the city on December 3, 2012. Police forces arrested some 40 people during the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>The recession-hit eurozone state has seen a wave of protests in recent weeks over public sector spending cuts and tough austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}