{"id":24737,"date":"2020-11-13T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/papua-new-guinea-stands-by-for-new-government-after-mps-abandon-james-marape"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:37:20","slug":"papua-new-guinea-stands-by-for-new-government-after-mps-abandon-james-marape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24737","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea stands by for new government after MPs abandon James Marape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition takes control of parliament and prepares for no-confidence motion on 1 December to end Marape\u2019s premiership<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea could be set to install a new government after dozens of government members \u2013 including nine ministers \u2013 abandoned prime minister James Marape in parliament to sit on the opposition benches.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition took control of parliament on Thursday and voted 57-39 to suspend parliament, ostensibly to block the passage of the government\u2019s budget, but more fundamentally to remove Marape.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/papua-new-guinea-stands-by-for-new-government-after-mps-abandon-james-marape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition takes control of parliament and prepares for no-confidence motion on 1 December to end Marape\u2019s premiershipPapua New Guinea could be set to install a new government after dozens of government members \u2013 including nine ministers \u2013 abandoned pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"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":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/24737","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\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions\/24738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}