{"id":47399,"date":"2022-08-13T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/solomon-islanders-greet-plan-to-delay-election-with-scepticism-and-anger"},"modified":"2022-08-13T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T20:00:21","slug":"solomon-islanders-greet-plan-to-delay-election-with-scepticism-and-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47399","title":{"rendered":"Solomon islanders greet plan to delay election with scepticism and anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the capital, Honiara, people are unimpressed with the government\u2019s argument that it can\u2019t host an election and a sporting event in the same year<\/p>\n<p>All week at the betel nut stalls across Honiara, people have been talking about one thing: the government\u2019s decision to defer national elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Solomon Islands government presented a bill to parliament saying it was seeking a constitutional amendment to defer the dissolution of parliament from May 2023 until the end of December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/solomon-islanders-greet-plan-to-delay-election-with-scepticism-and-anger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the capital, Honiara, people are unimpressed with the government\u2019s argument that it can\u2019t host an election and a sporting event in the same yearAll week at the betel nut stalls across Honiara, people have been talking about one thing: the govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3255,"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-47399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47399","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\/3255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47400,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47399\/revisions\/47400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}