{"id":51285,"date":"2022-12-20T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T08:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/frank-bainimaramas-reign-as-leader-of-fiji-ends-after-15-years"},"modified":"2022-12-21T03:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:05:48","slug":"frank-bainimaramas-reign-as-leader-of-fiji-ends-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51285","title":{"rendered":"Sitiveni Rabuka to be Fiji\u2019s new PM as Frank Bainimarama\u2019s 16-year reign ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Alliance leader will take over after he secured the backing of the Social Liberal Democratic party to oust longstanding rival<\/p>\n<p>Frank Bainimarama\u2019s reign as leader of Fiji has ended almost 16 years after he instigated a coup in 2006 and installed himself as prime minister the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Cheering, singing and car horns filled the streets on Tuesday outside the office of the man who will be crowned Fiji\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/frank-bainimaramas-reign-as-leader-of-fiji-ends-after-15-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Alliance leader will take over after he secured the backing of the Social Liberal Democratic party to oust longstanding rivalFrank Bainimarama\u2019s reign as leader of Fiji has ended almost 16 years after he instigated a coup in 2006 and insta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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-51285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/51285","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51285\/revisions\/51301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}