{"id":48262,"date":"2022-09-07T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/solomon-islands-refuses-australias-offer-to-help-fund-election-as-foreign-interference"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:01:52","slug":"solomon-islands-refuses-australias-offer-to-help-fund-election-as-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48262","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands refuses Australia\u2019s offer to help fund election as \u2018foreign interference\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare calls Australia\u2019s offer \u2018an assault on our parliamentary democracy\u2019 after saying his country had to delay elections because of cost<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/sep\/07\/australian-politics-live-medicines-housing-cost-of-living-rba-interest-rates-anthony-albanese-mark-butler-childcare-strikes\">Follow the day\u2019s news, live<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prime minister of Solomon Islands has responded furiously to an offer from the Australian government to assist with funding for the national election, calling it \u201cforeign interference\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Manasseh Sogavare\u2019s government added that the timing of the offer from Australia was \u201cinappropriate\u201d coming \u201cat a time when a bill to defer the elections \u2026 is now before the National Parliament of Solomon Islands for deliberations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/07\/solomon-islands-refuses-australias-offer-to-help-fund-election-as-foreign-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare calls Australia\u2019s offer \u2018an assault on our parliamentary democracy\u2019 after saying his country had to delay elections because of costFollow the day\u2019s news, liveGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe prime&#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":[41,43,645,874,1767,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-pacific-islands","category-penny-wong","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\/48262","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=48262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48262\/revisions\/48263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}