{"id":7866,"date":"2019-08-27T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/naurus-parliament-elects-lionel-aingimea-as-president-amid-refugee-crisis"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:33:10","slug":"naurus-parliament-elects-lionel-aingimea-as-president-amid-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7866","title":{"rendered":"Nauru&#8217;s parliament elects Lionel Aingimea as president amid refugee crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aingimea takes office as Australia attempts to repeal medevac laws and Nauru accused of blocking medical care to refugees<\/p>\n<p>Nauru\u2019s new president, Lionel Aingimea, says he will be like a \u201cfather of the nation\u201d, guiding and protecting the South Pacific island\u2019s 12,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Aingimea won the vote for presidency on Tuesday, 12 votes to six, against former finance minister David Adeang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/naurus-parliament-elects-lionel-aingimea-as-president-amid-refugee-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aingimea takes office as Australia attempts to repeal medevac laws and Nauru accused of blocking medical care to refugeesNauru\u2019s new president, Lionel Aingimea, says he will be like a \u201cfather of the nation\u201d, guiding and protecting the South Pacific isl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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":[41,43,324,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-nauru"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}