{"id":68958,"date":"2025-01-16T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/vanuatu-election-2025-earthquake-impact-results"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:07:55","slug":"vanuatu-holds-election-amid-earthquake-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68958","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu holds election amid earthquake devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents line up to vote amid political instability and buildings and infrastructure shattered by last month\u2019s earthquake<\/p>\n<p>Polls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political instability and the logistics of holding a snap election in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/18\/death-toll-expected-to-rise-in-vanuatu-after-earthquake-plunges-nation-into-state-of-emergency\">aftermath of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake<\/a> that killed at least 14 people and displaced thousands.<\/p>\n<p>As downtown Port Vila remained shuttered, with multiple buildings earmarked for demolition, some residents lined up in tents from 6.30am to vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/vanuatu-election-2025-earthquake-impact-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents line up to vote amid political instability and buildings and infrastructure shattered by last month\u2019s earthquakePolls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political instability and the logistics of holding a snap election &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4581,"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":[41,874,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-vanuatu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68958","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\/4581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68958\/revisions\/68959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}