{"id":47263,"date":"2022-08-09T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/bill-to-delay-solomon-islands-election-until-december-2023-prompts-concern"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T07:09:26","slug":"bill-to-delay-solomon-islands-election-until-december-2023-prompts-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47263","title":{"rendered":"Bill to delay Solomon Islands election until December 2023 prompts concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Sogavare\u2019s office claims country does not have resources to host Pacific Games and an election at same time, raising outcry from opponents<\/p>\n<p>A bill to delay elections in Solomon Islands has been submitted to its parliament, officials said, prompting concern from opposition politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Manasseh Sogavare\u2019s government has said it wants to extend parliament until after it hosts the Pacific Games in November 2023, for which China has donated seven stadiums and venues that are being built by Chinese companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/bill-to-delay-solomon-islands-election-until-december-2023-prompts-concern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Sogavare\u2019s office claims country does not have resources to host Pacific Games and an election at same time, raising outcry from opponentsA bill to delay elections in Solomon Islands has been submitted to its parliament, officials said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","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\/47263","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47263\/revisions\/47264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}