{"id":22345,"date":"2020-09-03T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/samoas-ruling-party-faces-new-threat-after-nearly-40-years-in-power"},"modified":"2020-09-03T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:30:17","slug":"samoas-ruling-party-faces-new-threat-after-nearly-40-years-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22345","title":{"rendered":"Samoa&#8217;s ruling party faces new threat \u2013 after nearly 40 years in power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi has ruled for 22 years, but a former ally leads a new coalition of challengers<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year rule of one of the world\u2019s longest-serving prime ministers, Samoa\u2019s Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi, faces its most significant challenge, with a new coalition \u2013 fronted by a former political ally \u2013 threatening his grip on power.<\/p>\n<p>The elder statesman of Pacific politics, Malielegaoi has been prime minister and foreign minister of Samoa since 1998.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/samoas-ruling-party-faces-new-threat-after-nearly-40-years-in-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi has ruled for 22 years, but a former ally leads a new coalition of challengersThe 22-year rule of one of the world\u2019s longest-serving prime ministers, Samoa\u2019s Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi&#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":[41,874,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","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\/22345","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=22345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions\/22346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}