{"id":24872,"date":"2020-11-18T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/papua-new-guinea-pm-calls-opposition-leader-scumbag-amid-political-power-struggle"},"modified":"2020-11-18T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:00:20","slug":"papua-new-guinea-pm-calls-opposition-leader-scumbag-amid-political-power-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24872","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea PM calls opposition leader &#8216;scumbag&#8217; amid political power struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape faces chaos amid bitter fighting over who can command a majority in a parliament now suspended until April<\/p>\n<p>The bitter arm-wrestle for control of Papua New Guinea\u2019s government has descended into chaos with a half-full parliament passing a budget, then deferring parliament for more than five months.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister James Marape\u2019s grip on power has been marginally improved by Tuesday\u2019s events, but remains tenuous and the coming weeks are likely to be racked by private and public machinations over who can command a majority on the floor of the house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/papua-new-guinea-pm-calls-opposition-leader-scumbag-amid-political-power-struggle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape faces chaos amid bitter fighting over who can command a majority in a parliament now suspended until AprilThe bitter arm-wrestle for control of Papua New Guinea\u2019s government has descended into chaos with a half-full parliament passing a bu&#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-24872","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\/24872","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=24872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24873,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24872\/revisions\/24873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}