{"id":24376,"date":"2020-11-02T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/allies-turned-adversaries-samoas-former-deputy-pm-to-challenge-her-former-leader"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:55:05","slug":"allies-turned-adversaries-samoas-former-deputy-pm-to-challenge-her-former-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24376","title":{"rendered":"Allies turned adversaries: Samoa\u2019s former deputy PM to challenge her former leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most stable democracy in the Pacific is undergoing a seismic political shift as the country approaches elections next year<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samoa\u2019s former deputy prime minister will run against her former party of 35 years, and the prime minister she served under, when she contests next year\u2019s election as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The most prominent and powerful female politician in Samoa\u2019s independent history, and the daughter of the country\u2019s first prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mata\u2019afa quit as deputy prime minister and as a member of the government last month. It also meant she left the Human Rights Protection party (HRPP) of which she had been a member of since 1985.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/allies-turned-adversaries-samoas-former-deputy-pm-to-challenge-her-former-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most stable democracy in the Pacific is undergoing a seismic political shift as the country approaches elections next year Samoa\u2019s former deputy prime minister will run against her former party of 35 years, and the prime minister she served under, &#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":[41,874,936,704,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-women-in-politics","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\/24376","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=24376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376\/revisions\/24377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}