{"id":31228,"date":"2021-04-22T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/chaos-in-png-politics-as-prime-minister-adjourns-parliament-avoiding-no-confidence-vote"},"modified":"2021-04-22T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:00:19","slug":"chaos-in-png-politics-as-prime-minister-adjourns-parliament-avoiding-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31228","title":{"rendered":"Chaos in PNG politics as prime minister adjourns parliament, avoiding no confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape has said the adjournment was due to Covid-19. He was facing a challenge from former prime minister Peter O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister, James Marape, has adjourned parliament for four months, avoiding a vote of no confidence that would have likely removed him from office.<\/p>\n<p>The adjournment was announced late on Wednesday, with the government citing the Covid-19 outbreak in the country as the reason. On Tuesday, the government announced that 36 parliamentary staffers and one MP had tested positive for Covid-19 in the last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/chaos-in-png-politics-as-prime-minister-adjourns-parliament-avoiding-no-confidence-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape has said the adjournment was due to Covid-19. He was facing a challenge from former prime minister Peter O\u2019NeillPapua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister, James Marape, has adjourned parliament for four months, avoiding a vote of no confidence tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228","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\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions\/31229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}