{"id":47282,"date":"2022-08-10T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/james-marape-returned-as-prime-minister-in-papua-new-guinea-after-fraught-election"},"modified":"2022-08-10T08:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:44:52","slug":"james-marape-returned-as-prime-minister-in-papua-new-guinea-after-fraught-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47282","title":{"rendered":"James Marape returned as prime minister in Papua New Guinea after fraught election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marape, leader of PNG since 2019, defeated ex-PM Peter O\u2019Neill in an election plagued by violence and electoral fraud<\/p>\n<p>James Marape has been returned as Papua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister for its 11th parliament after a fraught and violent election period that has run for roughly six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Marape \u2013 who became prime minister in 2019 after toppling his predecessor and former party leader, Peter O\u2019Neill \u2013 was invited to form government by the governor general, after his Pangu Pati secured 36 seats and was able to strike deals with coalition partners to bring its numbers to more than 80.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/james-marape-returned-as-prime-minister-in-papua-new-guinea-after-fraught-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marape, leader of PNG since 2019, defeated ex-PM Peter O\u2019Neill in an election plagued by violence and electoral fraudJames Marape has been returned as Papua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister for its 11th parliament after a fraught and violent election period&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"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-47282","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\/47282","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\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47283,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282\/revisions\/47283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}