{"id":19582,"date":"2020-06-22T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/22\/niues-covid-election-mp-wins-seat-on-coin-toss-as-lawn-bowls-king-becomes-leader"},"modified":"2020-06-22T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:08:16","slug":"coin-toss-for-a-parliament-seat-and-a-lawn-bowls-champion-premier-niues-covid-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19582","title":{"rendered":"Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue\u2019s Covid election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and \u2018a return to the good old happy days\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue\u2019s northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of votes, just as had happened in the last election; in 2017 it was 19-19, in 2020 it was 26-26.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/07\/trevor-the-lonely-duck-gets-tiny-island-of-niue-in-a-flap\">Trevor the lonely duck gets tiny island of Niue in a flap<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/22\/niues-covid-election-mp-wins-seat-on-coin-toss-as-lawn-bowls-king-becomes-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and \u2018a return to the good old happy days\u2019The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue\u2019s northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"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":[41,1473,1069,56,874,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-commonwealth-of-nations","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582","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\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions\/19594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}