{"id":14970,"date":"2020-02-25T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/timor-leste-prime-minister-offers-resignation-after-political-coalition-collapses"},"modified":"2020-02-25T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:22:17","slug":"timor-leste-prime-minister-offers-resignation-after-political-coalition-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14970","title":{"rendered":"Timor-Leste prime minister offers resignation after political coalition collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taur Matan Ruak offers to step down as southeast Asian nation faces new political instability<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Timor-Leste has sent a letter of resignation to the president, after the collapse of a coalition supporting him in parliament, plunging the tiny southeast Asian nation into new political uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have sent a [resignation] letter to the president,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/apr\/23\/timor-leste-former-guerilla-new-president\">Taur Matan Ruak<\/a> told reporters after meeting President Francisco Guterres, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/timor-leste-prime-minister-offers-resignation-after-political-coalition-collapses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taur Matan Ruak offers to step down as southeast Asian nation faces new political instabilityThe prime minister of Timor-Leste has sent a letter of resignation to the president, after the collapse of a coalition supporting him in parliament, plunging t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,664,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-timor-leste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}