{"id":73691,"date":"2025-08-28T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/samoa-election-personal-rivalries-geopolitical-tensions-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:55:04","slug":"samoas-election-personal-rivalries-geopolitical-tensions-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73691","title":{"rendered":"Samoa\u2019s election: Voting has begun after months of turmoil, here is everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samoans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections amid personal rivalries and geopolitical tensions <\/p>\n<p>Samoa went to the polls on Friday in a national election called early by the caretaker prime minister, Fiam\u0113 Naomi Mata\u2019afa, after months of political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Official campaigning ceased on Sunday with billboards blacked out, posters taken down and social media endorsements suspended under strict orders from the electoral commissioner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/samoa-election-personal-rivalries-geopolitical-tensions-what-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samoans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections amid personal rivalries and geopolitical tensions Samoa went to the polls on Friday in a national election called early by the caretaker prime minister, Fiam\u0113 Naomi Mata\u2019afa, after months of pol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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":[41,874,581,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-samoa","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\/73691","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73691\/revisions\/73706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}