{"id":307315,"date":"2018-12-19T04:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307315"},"modified":"2018-12-19T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T04:57:11","slug":"belgian-prime-minister-charles-michel-announces-his-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/belgian-prime-minister-charles-michel-announces-his-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announces his resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/belgian-prime-minister-charles-michel-announces-his-resignation\/belgian-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307316\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307316 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/belgian-PM-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/belgian-PM-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/belgian-PM-521x420.jpg 521w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/belgian-PM.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a>Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel who took office in 2014, has resigned amid pressure on his government after the biggest party in his coalition quit over his support for the U.N. global compact on migration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Michel told Belgian lawmakers on Tuesday that \u201cI am taking the decision to offer my resignation. I am now going to see the king\u201d to inform him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Michel announced his intention to resign on Tuesday following a debate in parliament where opposition parties refused to lend their support to allow his government to keep working until legislative elections in May next year<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Belgium was due to go to the polls next May; his decision now raises the possibility of early elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel who took office in 2014, has resigned amid pressure on his government after the biggest party in his coalition quit over his support for the U.N. global compact on migration. Michel told Belgian lawmakers on Tuesday that \u201cI am taking the decision to offer my resignation. I am now going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[10342,10341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307318,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307315\/revisions\/307318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}