{"id":26153,"date":"2019-05-26T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=26153"},"modified":"2019-06-17T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:25:31","slug":"png-prime-minister-peter-oneill-announces-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=26153","title":{"rendered":"PNG Prime Minister Peter O&#8217;Neill Announces Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SYDNEY, Australia, May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Embattled Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O&#8217;Neill, has announced his resignation, at a media conference in the capital city of Port Moresby today (Sunday), after a series of ministers defected from his cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a pending leadership challenge, scheduled for Monday (tomorrow), is expected to gain the support of a majority of MP&#8217;s, O&#8217;Neill cited parliament&#8217;s &#8220;need for change&#8221; as the reason for his departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O&#8217;Neill handed over the leadership to former Prime Minister, Julius Chan.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia, May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Embattled Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O&#8217;Neill, has announced his resignation, at a media conference in the capital city of Port Moresby today (Sunday), after a series of ministers defected from his cabinet. As a pending leadership challenge, scheduled for Monday (tomorrow), is expected to gain the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}