{"id":63500,"date":"2024-04-22T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/maldives-elections-2024-mohamed-muizzu-pnc-peoples-national-congress-pro-china-party-wins"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:50:49","slug":"pro-china-party-wins-landslide-victory-in-maldives-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63500","title":{"rendered":"Pro-China party wins landslide victory in Maldives parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters back President Mohamed Muizzu\u2019s tilt towards China and away from traditional ally India<\/p>\n<p>Maldives voters have backed President Mohamed Muizzu\u2019s tilt towards China and away from traditional benefactor India, with his party winning control of parliament in an election landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Muizzu\u2019s People\u2019s National Congress (PNC) won 66 of the first 86 seats declared, according to the Elections Commission of Maldives, already more than enough for a super-majority in the 93-member parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/maldives-elections-2024-mohamed-muizzu-pnc-peoples-national-congress-pro-china-party-wins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters back President Mohamed Muizzu\u2019s tilt towards China and away from traditional ally IndiaMaldives voters have backed President Mohamed Muizzu\u2019s tilt towards China and away from traditional benefactor India, with his party winning control of parlia&#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":[41,50,62,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-maldives"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63500","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=63500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63500\/revisions\/63501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}