{"id":18756,"date":"2020-05-28T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/fiji-politics-in-chaos-after-main-opposition-party-suspended"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:14:06","slug":"fiji-politics-in-chaos-after-main-opposition-party-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18756","title":{"rendered":"Fiji politics in chaos after main opposition party suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punishment of Sodelpa party for factional infighting leaves parliament with just three opposition members on the eve of a major budget debate<\/p>\n<p>The political situation in Fiji, yet to fully recover from the effects of the 2006 coup, is in a tailspin once again following the suspension of the main&nbsp;opposition&nbsp;party this week.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of the Social Democratic Liberal party (Sodelpa) by&nbsp;Fiji\u2019s Registrar of Political Parties&nbsp;on Tuesday leaves parliament with just three opposition members (from the much smaller National Federation party) on the eve of a major national budget debate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/fiji-politics-in-chaos-after-main-opposition-party-suspended\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punishment of Sodelpa party for factional infighting leaves parliament with just three opposition members on the eve of a major budget debateThe political situation in Fiji, yet to fully recover from the effects of the 2006 coup, is in a tailspin once &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/18756","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\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions\/18757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}