{"id":11460,"date":"2019-11-25T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:04:24","slug":"hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11460","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong voters deliver landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says she will \u2018listen humbly\u2019 after almost 90% of district council seats go to pro-democracy candidates<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s voters have delivered an unprecedented landslide for pro-democracy candidates in local elections, in a powerful show of solidarity with the city\u2019s protest movement and rebuke to the government over its handling of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Over six months of escalating violence on the streets, Hong Kong\u2019s leader Carrie Lam had claimed the support of a \u201csilent majority\u201d for her hardline response and refusal to compromise. Sunday\u2019s vote, widely seen as a proxy referendum on the city\u2019s future, exposed that stance as a sham.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says she will \u2018listen humbly\u2019 after almost 90% of district council seats go to pro-democracy candidatesHong Kong\u2019s voters have delivered an unprecedented landslide for pro-democracy candidates in local elections, in a powerful show of solida&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/11460","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}