{"id":54756,"date":"2023-05-01T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/01\/paraguays-taiwan-ties-safe-as-ruling-party-retains-presidency"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T06:04:10","slug":"paraguays-taiwan-ties-safe-as-ruling-party-retains-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54756","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay\u2019s Taiwan ties safe as ruling party retains presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Pe\u00f1a of the Colorado party is elected, defeating Efra\u00edn Alegre who wanted to switch diplomatic recognition to China<\/p>\n<p>Paraguay\u2019s ruling party candidate, Santiago Pe\u00f1a, 44, has scored a big win in the presidential election, tightening the conservative Colorado party\u2019s political grip and defusing fears that diplomatic ties with Taiwan might have been cut.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a, who has pledged to maintain Paraguay\u2019s longstanding Taiwan relations, had 42.7% of the vote with more than 99% of ballots counted \u2013 a more than 15-point lead over centre-left rival Efra\u00edn Alegre, who has argued for switching allegiance to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/01\/paraguays-taiwan-ties-safe-as-ruling-party-retains-presidency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Pe\u00f1a of the Colorado party is elected, defeating Efra\u00edn Alegre who wanted to switch diplomatic recognition to ChinaParaguay\u2019s ruling party candidate, Santiago Pe\u00f1a, 44, has scored a big win in the presidential election, tightening the conserva&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[246,1369,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-paraguay","category-taiwan","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\/54756","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54756\/revisions\/54762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}