{"id":63692,"date":"2024-04-30T02:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/29\/solomon-islands-pm-manasseh-sogavare-to-stand-down-after-poor-election-result"},"modified":"2024-04-30T02:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:36:27","slug":"solomon-islands-pm-manasseh-sogavare-to-stand-down-after-poor-election-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63692","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare to stand down after poor election result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says \u2018it\u2019s not been easy\u2019 as he stands aside five years after controversially realigning the country with China <\/p>\n<p>The Solomon Islands prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has announced he will not stand as a candidate when lawmakers vote this week for a new leader, and his political party would instead back former foreign minister Jeremiah Manele.<\/p>\n<p>The two major opposition parties in Solomon Islands struck a coalition deal on Saturday as they vie with Sogavare\u2019s party to form a government after an election delivered no clear winner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/29\/solomon-islands-pm-manasseh-sogavare-to-stand-down-after-poor-election-result\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says \u2018it\u2019s not been easy\u2019 as he stands aside five years after controversially realigning the country with China The Solomon Islands prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has announced he will not stand as a candidate when lawmakers vote this week f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,43,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63692","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63693,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63692\/revisions\/63693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}