{"id":53218,"date":"2023-03-08T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/08\/former-fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-quits-parliament-following-unjustified-suspension"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:13:50","slug":"former-fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-quits-parliament-following-unjustified-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53218","title":{"rendered":"Former Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama quits parliament following \u2018unjustified\u2019 suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-prime minister says he will remain in politics as he seeks to retain his opposition party\u2019s share of parliamentary seats<\/p>\n<p>Former Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama has resigned from the Pacific nation\u2019s parliament, weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/fiji-opposition-leader-suspended-from-parliament-for-sedition\">he was suspended for sedition<\/a> and insulting the president.<\/p>\n<p>Bainimarama said he was tendering his resignation \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d, but had no intention of resigning from politics, in a post on his FijiFirst party\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/08\/former-fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-quits-parliament-following-unjustified-suspension\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-prime minister says he will remain in politics as he seeks to retain his opposition party\u2019s share of parliamentary seatsFormer Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama has resigned from the Pacific nation\u2019s parliament, weeks after he was suspended fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-53218","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\/53218","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53219,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions\/53219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}