{"id":51343,"date":"2022-12-22T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/22\/fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election"},"modified":"2022-12-22T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:32:13","slug":"fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51343","title":{"rendered":"Fiji deploys military for \u2018law and order\u2019 as power hangs in balance after election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama, the prime minister, is yet to concede defeat, while opposition parties claim enough seats to form government<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s military will assist police in maintaining \u201csecurity and stability\u201d after last week\u2019s election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/fiji-elections-2022-bainimarama-loses-parliamentary-majority-as-count-finalised\">delivered a hung parliament<\/a>, the country\u2019s police commissioner has said \u2013 an alarming development in a country where there have been four military coups in the past 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific country is waiting for its president to recall parliament so lawmakers can vote for a new prime minister after a national election showed no party received a clear majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/22\/fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bainimarama, the prime minister, is yet to concede defeat, while opposition parties claim enough seats to form governmentFiji\u2019s military will assist police in maintaining \u201csecurity and stability\u201d after last week\u2019s election delivered a hung parlia&#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":[41,436,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","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\/51343","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=51343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51343\/revisions\/51344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}