{"id":23870,"date":"2020-10-16T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/kyrgyzstan-parliament-confirms-sadyr-japarov-new-president"},"modified":"2020-10-16T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:39:46","slug":"kyrgyzstan-parliament-confirms-sadyr-japarov-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23870","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan parliament confirms Sadyr Japarov as new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist politician made PM amid protests to lead country until elections next year<\/p>\n<p>Sadyr Japarov, a nationalist politician who until last week was serving an 11-year jail term on kidnapping charges, has been confirmed as president of Kyrgyzstan after his predecessor resigned following protests.<\/p>\n<p>Sooronbay Jeenbekov stepped down on Thursday after violent demonstrations erupted over disputed parliamentary election results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/kyrgyzstan-parliament-confirms-sadyr-japarov-new-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist politician made PM amid protests to lead country until elections next yearSadyr Japarov, a nationalist politician who until last week was serving an 11-year jail term on kidnapping charges, has been confirmed as president of Kyrgyzstan afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"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":[573,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyrgyzstan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/23870","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\/1627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions\/23884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}