{"id":51377,"date":"2022-12-23T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/fijis-king-maker-party-votes-to-support-opposition-coalition-and-oust-frank-bainimarama"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:34:15","slug":"fijis-king-maker-party-votes-to-support-opposition-coalition-and-oust-frank-bainimarama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51377","title":{"rendered":"Fiji\u2019s king-maker party votes to support opposition coalition and oust Frank Bainimarama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We believe we have agreed on a way forward that benefits this country,\u2019 party leader Viliame Gavoka told reporters after an internal party vote<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s Social Democratic Liberal party (Sodelpa) said on Friday that it would form a coalition with two other parties, a move that will dislodge the current prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, signalling an end to the former military leader\u2019s 16 years in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we have agreed on a way forward that benefits this country,\u201d party leader Viliame Gavoka said in a news conference after an internal party vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/fijis-king-maker-party-votes-to-support-opposition-coalition-and-oust-frank-bainimarama\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We believe we have agreed on a way forward that benefits this country,\u2019 party leader Viliame Gavoka told reporters after an internal party voteFiji\u2019s Social Democratic Liberal party (Sodelpa) said on Friday that it would form a coalition with two othe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-51377","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\/51377","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51377\/revisions\/51378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}