{"id":51389,"date":"2022-12-24T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/fiji-parliament-confirms-sitiveni-rabuka-as-prime-minister-after-days-of-uncertainty"},"modified":"2022-12-24T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:40:17","slug":"fiji-parliament-confirms-sitiveni-rabuka-as-prime-minister-after-days-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51389","title":{"rendered":"Fiji parliament confirms Sitiveni Rabuka as prime minister after days of uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabuka accused the outgoing government of Frank Bainimarama of stoking \u2018fear and chaos\u2019 in the aftermath of the close election<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sitiveni Rabuka has become Fiji\u2019s prime minister after a coalition of parties voted to install him, signalling an end to Frank Bainimarama\u2019s 16 years in power.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Rabuka on Saturday ended 10 days of uncertainty after an election delivered a hung parliament. Fiji\u2019s Social Democratic Liberal party (Sodelpa) held the balance of power and on Friday voted to form a coalition with Rabuka\u2019s People\u2019s Alliance and the National Federation party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/fiji-parliament-confirms-sitiveni-rabuka-as-prime-minister-after-days-of-uncertainty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabuka accused the outgoing government of Frank Bainimarama of stoking \u2018fear and chaos\u2019 in the aftermath of the close electionSitiveni Rabuka has become Fiji\u2019s prime minister after a coalition of parties voted to install him, signalling an end to Frank&#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":[41,436,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51389","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=51389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51389\/revisions\/51390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}