{"id":50571,"date":"2022-11-26T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/26\/taiwan-local-election-polls-2024-presidential-election"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T05:19:02","slug":"taiwan-goes-to-polls-in-closely-watched-local-vote-ahead-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50571","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan goes to polls in closely watched local vote ahead of presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China issue sidelined in local votes that will shed light on the major parties\u2019 fortunes ahead of the 2024 presidential election<\/p>\n<p>Voters headed to the polls across Taiwan on Saturday in a closely watched local election that will determine the strength of the major political parties ahead of the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese citizens are picking their mayors, city council members and other local leaders in all 13 counties and the six major cities. There\u2019s also a referendum to lower the voting age from 20 to 18.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/26\/taiwan-local-election-polls-2024-presidential-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China issue sidelined in local votes that will shed light on the major parties\u2019 fortunes ahead of the 2024 presidential electionVoters headed to the polls across Taiwan on Saturday in a closely watched local election that will determine the strength of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50586,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571\/revisions\/50586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}