{"id":10219,"date":"2019-10-17T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-wont-face-assault-charges-over-carpark-tussle-with-mp"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:50:22","slug":"fiji-pm-bainimarama-wont-face-assault-charges-over-carpark-tussle-with-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"Fiji PM Bainimarama won&#8217;t face assault charges over carpark tussle with MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama\u2019s heated argument with opposition MP Pio Tikoduadua was captured on video<\/p>\n<p>No assault charges will be laid against the prime minister of Fiji in relation to an incident with an opposition MP outside parliament, despite there being \u201csufficient evidence for the matter to proceed to court,\u201d the country\u2019s department of public prosecutions has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Bainimarama was accused of assault by Pio Tikoduadua, an opposition MP for the National Federation Party, who alleges the prime minister grabbed and shoved him outside Fiji\u2019s parliament in Suva, causing his glasses to fall to the ground and break.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-wont-face-assault-charges-over-carpark-tussle-with-mp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama\u2019s heated argument with opposition MP Pio Tikoduadua was captured on videoNo assault charges will be laid against the prime minister of Fiji in relation to an incident with an opposition MP outside parliament, despite there being \u201csuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}