{"id":37164,"date":"2021-09-21T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/hong-kong-leader-defends-election-after-single-opposition-figure-makes-it-to-1500-strong-committee"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:46:48","slug":"hong-kong-leader-defends-election-after-single-opposition-figure-makes-it-to-1500-strong-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37164","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader defends election after single opposition figure makes it to 1,500-strong committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam rejects criticism over the lack of opposition figures in the election committee, saying \u2018non-patriots\u2019 may undermine Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the weekend\u2019s election of a powerful committee to appoint senior leaders, after just one non-establishment candidate was elected among the 1,500 positions.<\/p>\n<p>Under an overhauled electoral system, dubbed \u201cpatriots rule Hong Kong\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-elite-vote-patriots-only-election-process\">fewer than 5,000 people were eligible to vote on Sunday,<\/a> choosing from candidates who had already been vetted for political loyalty and cleared of being a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/hong-kong-leader-defends-election-after-single-opposition-figure-makes-it-to-1500-strong-committee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam rejects criticism over the lack of opposition figures in the election committee, saying \u2018non-patriots\u2019 may undermine Hong KongHong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the weekend\u2019s election of a powerful committee to appoint sen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,555,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions\/37175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}