{"id":23142,"date":"2020-09-26T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/26\/malaysias-pm-faces-crunch-popularity-test-as-polls-open-in-state-election"},"modified":"2020-09-26T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:45:32","slug":"malaysias-pm-faces-crunch-popularity-test-as-polls-open-in-state-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23142","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s PM faces crunch popularity test as polls open in state election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting starts in the eastern state of Sabah, seen as a referendum on Muhyiddin Yassin\u2019s unelected government<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s embattled prime minister faces a crucial test on Saturday as polls opened in elections in the eastern state of Sabah, seen as a referendum on his seven-month-old, unelected government.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the opposition-ruled state dissolved its assembly on 30 July to seek early elections and thwart attempts by Muhyiddin Yassin\u2019s ruling alliance to take over Sabah through defections of lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/26\/malaysias-pm-faces-crunch-popularity-test-as-polls-open-in-state-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting starts in the eastern state of Sabah, seen as a referendum on Muhyiddin Yassin\u2019s unelected governmentMalaysia\u2019s embattled prime minister faces a crucial test on Saturday as polls opened in elections in the eastern state of Sabah, seen as a refer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","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\/23142","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23143,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions\/23143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}