{"id":47645,"date":"2022-08-19T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/vanuatus-president-dissolves-parliament-to-avoid-ousting-of-prime-minister"},"modified":"2022-08-19T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:41:27","slug":"vanuatus-president-dissolves-parliament-to-avoid-ousting-of-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47645","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu\u2019s president dissolves parliament to avoid ousting of prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader says dissolution, staged to prevent a no-confidence vote against Bob Loughman, will be challenged in court<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s president dissolved its parliament on Thursday, the state broadcaster VBTC reported, after an attempt by some politicians to oust the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The PM, Bob Loughman, had been expected to face a no-confidence motion when parliament next sat after a group of lawmakers in his party said they had sided with the opposition in a bid to remove him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/vanuatus-president-dissolves-parliament-to-avoid-ousting-of-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader says dissolution, staged to prevent a no-confidence vote against Bob Loughman, will be challenged in courtVanuatu\u2019s president dissolved its parliament on Thursday, the state broadcaster VBTC reported, after an attempt by some politici&#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":[41,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/47645","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=47645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47646,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47645\/revisions\/47646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}