{"id":57216,"date":"2001-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96fb07cb-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"96fb07dc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96fb07dc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll preparations continue as parliament vote nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONIARA, Solomons (PINA Nius) &#8212; The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission is continuing with election preparations despite the introduction of an amendment bill seeking to extend the life of Parliament from four to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Electoral Officer John Babalu said his office is preparing to review voters\u2019 lists, register voters and make other arrangements necessary to hold this year&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bill seeking an extension of the life of Parliament is for members of Parliament to decide.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that the commission will be facing some problems this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Babalu said two provincial headquarters, which had custody of voters&#8217; lists, were destroyed during the two years of ethnic conflict between the indigenous people of Guadalcanal and Malaita.<\/p>\n<p>He also said funding had been slow reaching the commission and the large number of guns still at large meant election officials and voters may be intimidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission is continuing with election preparations despite the introduction of an amendment bill seeking to extend the life of Parliament from four to five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}