{"id":51939,"date":"2023-01-17T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/fiji-military-warns-new-pms-government-against-making-sweeping-changes"},"modified":"2023-01-17T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T06:25:47","slug":"fiji-military-warns-new-pms-government-against-making-sweeping-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51939","title":{"rendered":"Fiji military warns new PM\u2019s government against making \u2018sweeping changes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commander claims \u2018trying and failing to democratise\u2019 country can jeopardise national security, just over a month after hotly contested elections  <\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s military chief has warned MPs against making \u201csweeping changes\u201d, less than a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/fiji-parliament-confirms-sitiveni-rabuka-as-prime-minister-after-days-of-uncertainty\">contested elections<\/a> that removed the government of Frank Bainimarama, who ruled the Pacific island for 16 years after taking power in a coup.<\/p>\n<p>Under Fiji\u2019s constitution \u2013 adopted in 2013 \u2013 the military has wide powers to intervene in politics. The new government \u2013 under the control of prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka \u2013 has said that reviewing the constitution is one of its immediate priorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/fiji-military-warns-new-pms-government-against-making-sweeping-changes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander claims \u2018trying and failing to democratise\u2019 country can jeopardise national security, just over a month after hotly contested elections  Fiji\u2019s military chief has warned MPs against making \u201csweeping changes\u201d, less than a month after contested &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-51939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51939","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51940,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51939\/revisions\/51940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}