{"id":51110,"date":"2022-12-13T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/fiji-national-election-2022-explainer-guide-key-issues-economy-climate-china-media-blackout"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:52:12","slug":"fiji-election-2022-whats-happening-why-does-it-matter-and-will-the-vote-be-peaceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51110","title":{"rendered":"Fiji election 2022: what\u2019s happening, why does it matter and will the vote be peaceful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji goes to the polls in the midst of a strict media blackout that bars any promotion of political candidates or parties<\/p>\n<p>Fiji will hold a national election on Wednesday 14 December, the third since its leader Josaia Voreqe \u201cFrank\u201d Bainimarama came to power in a coup he instigated in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The poll will mark the country\u2019s third democratic elections under the constitution that was implemented in 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/fiji-national-election-2022-explainer-guide-key-issues-economy-climate-china-media-blackout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji goes to the polls in the midst of a strict media blackout that bars any promotion of political candidates or partiesFiji will hold a national election on Wednesday 14 December, the third since its leader Josaia Voreqe \u201cFrank\u201d Bainimarama came to p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/51110","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51110\/revisions\/51111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}