{"id":68477,"date":"2024-12-24T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/aisake-valu-eke-new-tonga-prime-minister"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:49:48","slug":"tonga-government-elects-aisake-valu-eke-as-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68477","title":{"rendered":"Tonga government elects \u2019Aisake Valu Eke as new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new leader was chosen by secret ballot two weeks after the previous premier resigned abruptly amid a power struggle with the Pacific nation\u2019s royal family<\/p>\n<p>Tonga\u2019s government elected a new leader on Tuesday, two weeks after the previous premier resigned abruptly after a power struggle with the Pacific nation\u2019s royal family.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran politician \u2019Aisake Valu Eke was voted prime minister by secret ballot in parliament, securing 16 votes to his opponent Viliami Latu\u2019s eight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/aisake-valu-eke-new-tonga-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new leader was chosen by secret ballot two weeks after the previous premier resigned abruptly amid a power struggle with the Pacific nation\u2019s royal familyTonga\u2019s government elected a new leader on Tuesday, two weeks after the previous premier resig&#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":[41,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-tonga","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\/68477","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=68477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477\/revisions\/68478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}