{"id":17379,"date":"2020-04-20T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/vanuatu-elects-new-prime-minister-as-country-reels-from-devastating-cyclone"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:24:55","slug":"vanuatu-elects-new-prime-minister-as-country-reels-from-devastating-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17379","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu elects new prime minister as country reels from devastating cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Loughman, an MP from the island of Tanna, will become the next prime minister of the south Pacific nation<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s parliament has elected a new prime minister more than a month after the country went to the polls, as the country is reeling from a devastating category-five cyclone and preparing for a potential coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Loughman, an MP from the island of Tanna, will become the next prime minister of the south Pacific nation, after defeating the former foreign minister Ralph Regenvanu in a vote in parliament on Monday, by 31 votes to 21.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/vanuatu-elects-new-prime-minister-as-country-reels-from-devastating-cyclone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Loughman, an MP from the island of Tanna, will become the next prime minister of the south Pacific nationVanuatu\u2019s parliament has elected a new prime minister more than a month after the country went to the polls, as the country is reeling from a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"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":[41,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/17379","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\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17380,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions\/17380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}