{"id":21544,"date":"2018-04-12T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21544"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:30:44","slug":"public-holiday-for-sarawak-on-polling-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21544","title":{"rendered":"Public holiday for Sarawak on polling day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Sarawak state government has declared\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">May 9, 2018<\/a>\u00a0as an additional public holiday throughout Sarawak to enable the people to exercise their democratic rights to vote on the polling day of the 14th General Election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFollowing the announcement by the Election Commission (EC) that polling day for the 14th General Election falls\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on\u00a0Wednesday, 9th May 2018<\/a>, the State Government has decided that an additional public holiday be declared throughout Sarawak on that day to enable the rakyat to exercise their democratic rights to vote,\u201d the Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Office stated in a press statement today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This declaration is made pursuant to section 5 of the Public Holidays Ordinance [Cap.8 (1958 Ed.)], the Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Office added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sarawak state government has declared\u00a0May 9, 2018\u00a0as an additional public holiday throughout Sarawak to enable the people to exercise their democratic rights to vote on the polling day of the 14th General Election. \u201cFollowing the announcement by the Election Commission (EC) that polling day for the 14th General Election falls\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday, 9th May 2018, the State Government has decided that an additional public holiday be declared throughout Sarawak on that day to enable the rakyat to exercise their democratic rights to vote,\u201d the Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Office stated in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21544\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}