{"id":149211,"date":"2020-06-22T01:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/22\/coin-toss-for-a-parliament-seat-and-a-lawn-bowls-champion-premier-niues-covid-election\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:08:16","slug":"coin-toss-for-a-parliament-seat-and-a-lawn-bowls-champion-premier-niues-covid-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149211","title":{"rendered":"Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue\u2019s Covid election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and \u2018a return to the good old happy days\u2019The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue\u2019s northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of votes, just as had happened in the last election; in 2017 it was 19-19, in 2020 it was 26-26. Related: Trevor the lonely duck gets tiny island of Niue in a flap Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/22\/niues-covid-election-mp-wins-seat-on-coin-toss-as-lawn-bowls-king-becomes-leader\" target=\"_blank\">Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue\u2019s Covid election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and \u2018a return to the good old happy days\u2019The two candidates for the seat of Mutalau, a village on Niue\u2019s northern point, could not be separated. Both had the same number of votes, just as had happened in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}