{"id":25517,"date":"2020-12-09T14:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/papua-new-guinea-crisis-deepens-as-court-orders-mps-to-return-in-blow-to-pm"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:02:54","slug":"papua-new-guinea-crisis-deepens-as-court-orders-mps-to-return-in-blow-to-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25517","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea crisis deepens as court orders MPs to return in blow to PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PNG prime minister James Marape faces serious challenge to his rule after chief justice rules in favour of opposition call for parliament to resume<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea politics has descended into fresh chaos, with the supreme court throwing out the country\u2019s budget and demanding parliament return to work.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister James Marape \u2013 just days outside the 18-month grace period afforded to new governments in which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/papua-new-guinea-pm-calls-opposition-leader-scumbag-amid-political-power-struggle\">can\u2019t be toppled in parliament<\/a> \u2013 faces a serious challenge to his leadership, with parliament instructed to resume on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/papua-new-guinea-crisis-deepens-as-court-orders-mps-to-return-in-blow-to-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNG prime minister James Marape faces serious challenge to his rule after chief justice rules in favour of opposition call for parliament to resumePapua New Guinea politics has descended into fresh chaos, with the supreme court throwing out the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"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-25517","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\/25517","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\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25518,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions\/25518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}