{"id":49501,"date":"2022-10-21T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/21\/vanuatu-to-welcome-first-female-mp-since-2008-after-snap-election"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:00:01","slug":"vanuatu-to-welcome-first-female-mp-since-2008-after-snap-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49501","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu to welcome first female MP since 2008 after snap election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanuatu Election Commission yet to declare official results but Julia King likely to be lone female voice in 52-member parliament<\/p>\n<p>Votes are still being counted in Vanuatu\u2019s snap election, but with the preliminary votes tallied, one change seems certain: Vanuatu\u2019s all-male parliament is no more, with the first woman elected to office since 2008 likely to be announced within days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited for Vanuatu women of course,\u201d Julia King said. King looks set to be returned as the MP for Mele on the outskirts of the capital of Port Vila. \u201cI\u2019m happy for women in general to know they have a voice that can be represented up there. That\u2019s the part I can be excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/21\/vanuatu-to-welcome-first-female-mp-since-2008-after-snap-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanuatu Election Commission yet to declare official results but Julia King likely to be lone female voice in 52-member parliamentVotes are still being counted in Vanuatu\u2019s snap election, but with the preliminary votes tallied, one change seems certain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3122,"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-49501","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\/49501","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\/3122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49502,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501\/revisions\/49502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}