{"id":48214,"date":"2022-09-06T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/coup-leader-v-coup-leader-strongman-election-shows-cracks-in-fijis-democracy"},"modified":"2022-09-06T05:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:00:38","slug":"coup-leader-versus-coup-leader-strongman-election-shows-the-cracks-in-fijian-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48214","title":{"rendered":"Coup leader versus coup leader: strongman election shows the cracks in Fijian democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever the outcome of this year\u2019s election, the next prime minister will likely be someone who first came to power through the barrel of a gun<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Australian Labor party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against Fiji as a result of the country\u2019s fourth coup in 2006. Relations worsened before they improved and, partly at Australia\u2019s prompting, Fiji was suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2022. Fiji\u2019s 2006 coup leader is now its prime minister, Fiji is chairing the Pacific Islands Forum, and it was the first Pacific country that Australia\u2019s new foreign minister, Penny Wong, visited.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/coup-leader-v-coup-leader-strongman-election-shows-cracks-in-fijis-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever the outcome of this year\u2019s election, the next prime minister will likely be someone who first came to power through the barrel of a gunThe last time the Australian Labor party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3305,"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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-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\/48214","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\/3305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48214\/revisions\/48215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}