{"id":45960,"date":"2022-07-02T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/papua-new-guinea-election-whats-at-stake"},"modified":"2022-07-02T05:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:00:28","slug":"papua-new-guinea-election-whats-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45960","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea election: what\u2019s at stake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results will impact not only domestic policy but also the wider Pacific and geopolitical landscape<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/papua-new-guinea-heads-to-the-polls-amid-election-violence\">Papua New Guinea to head to the polls amid election violence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the coming days, Papua New Guineans will head to the polls to vote in the first national election in five years.<\/p>\n<p>A struggling economy, the impact of the pandemic and growing frustrations about failing public services are among the leading issues. The results of the election will be important not only to the country\u2019s almost 9 million people, but also for the increasingly complex geopolitical landscape in the wider Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/papua-new-guinea-election-whats-at-stake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results will impact not only domestic policy but also the wider Pacific and geopolitical landscapePapua New Guinea to head to the polls amid election violenceIn the coming days, Papua New Guineans will head to the polls to vote in the first nationa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3153,"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":[41,43,50,646,874,267,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-gender","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-women","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\/45960","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\/3153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45960\/revisions\/46018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}