{"id":47329,"date":"2022-08-11T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/solomon-islands-pms-election-delay-push-a-power-grab-linked-to-china-pact-opposition-leader-says"},"modified":"2022-08-11T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:30:21","slug":"solomon-islands-pms-election-delay-push-a-power-grab-linked-to-china-pact-opposition-leader-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47329","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands PM\u2019s election delay push a \u2018power grab\u2019 linked to China pact, opposition leader says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Wale says Chinese forces may be brought in by government to deal with unrest from postponing vote<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader of Solomon Islands has blasted a push by the prime minister to delay the 2023 election, saying the move is the \u201cpower grab\u201d he foresaw when Manasseh Sogavare signed a controversial security deal with China earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no doubt in my mind this is a power grab,\u201d Matthew Wale said of the bill introduced by Sogavare\u2019s government to extend parliament. \u201cIt\u2019s all orchestrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/solomon-islands-pms-election-delay-push-a-power-grab-linked-to-china-pact-opposition-leader-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Wale says Chinese forces may be brought in by government to deal with unrest from postponing voteThe opposition leader of Solomon Islands has blasted a push by the prime minister to delay the 2023 election, saying the move is the \u201cpower grab\u201d h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47329","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47333,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47329\/revisions\/47333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}