{"id":46045,"date":"2022-07-05T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/new-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-election-campaign-spending-sole-candidate"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T04:42:43","slug":"new-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-spent-1-1m-on-election-campaign-in-which-he-was-sole-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46045","title":{"rendered":"New Hong Kong leader John Lee spent $1.1m on election campaign in which he was sole candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donations flooded in to office of security hardliner despite lack of any rivals to beat for job of chief executive<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s new chief executive, John Lee, received almost HK$11.3m (US$1.4m) in donations during his election campaign earlier this year, according to official filings released on Monday. Lee had run for the city\u2019s top job in May via a small-circle election in which he was the only candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Lee spent around HK$9m (US$1.1m) of the donations on his campaign, the majority of which were split between advertisements, gatherings, office rent and transportation. The majority of advertising costs, around HK$2m, went to social media advertising, while HK$710,000 of funds allotted for office rent and transportation was spent on security. The unused funds were donated to local charity the Community Chest of Hong Kong, the filing said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/new-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-election-campaign-spending-sole-candidate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations flooded in to office of security hardliner despite lack of any rivals to beat for job of chief executiveHong Kong\u2019s new chief executive, John Lee, received almost HK$11.3m (US$1.4m) in donations during his election campaign earlier this year,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"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":[50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045","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\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46046,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045\/revisions\/46046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}