{"id":59537,"date":"2023-10-31T15:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/hong-kong-leader-defends-elections-after-largest-pro-democracy-party-shut-out"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T06:58:49","slug":"hong-kong-leader-defends-elections-after-largest-pro-democracy-party-shut-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59537","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader defends elections after largest pro-democracy party shut out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic party, the city\u2019s largest pro-democracy party, failed to secure enough nominations under new rules introduced by authorities<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader has defended the rules for upcoming local elections as open and fair, even though an electoral overhaul means the city\u2019s remaining pro-democracy activists won\u2019t be part of the race.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic party, will be absent in December\u2019s district council election for the first time since its establishment in 1994.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/hong-kong-leader-defends-elections-after-largest-pro-democracy-party-shut-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic party, the city\u2019s largest pro-democracy party, failed to secure enough nominations under new rules introduced by authoritiesHong Kong\u2019s leader has defended the rules for upcoming local elections as open and fair, even though an electoral&#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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59537","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=59537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59537\/revisions\/59538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}