{"id":58860,"date":"2023-09-30T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/30\/maldives-vote-runoff-for-presidency-begins-in-shadow-of-india-china-tussle-for-influence"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:09:33","slug":"maldives-vote-runoff-for-presidency-begins-in-shadow-of-india-china-tussle-for-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58860","title":{"rendered":"Maldives vote: runoff for presidency begins in shadow of India-China tussle for influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Delhi incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih faces uphill battle against Beijing-leaning frontrunner Mohamed Muizzu as contest remains on knife\u2019s edge<\/p>\n<p>The Maldives started voting on Saturday to decide their next president, in an elections widely seen as a referendum on whether to hitch their fortunes to China or India, both vying for influence in the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, 61, faces an uphill battle to secure a second mandate after a term that saw renewed ties with New Delhi, the archipelago\u2019s traditional benefactor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/30\/maldives-vote-runoff-for-presidency-begins-in-shadow-of-india-china-tussle-for-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Delhi incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih faces uphill battle against Beijing-leaning frontrunner Mohamed Muizzu as contest remains on knife\u2019s edgeThe Maldives started voting on Saturday to decide their next president, in an elections widely seen as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2164,"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":[41,50,62,1091,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-maldives","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58860","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\/2164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58860\/revisions\/58861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}