{"id":60450,"date":"2023-12-09T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T06:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/09\/its-just-a-show-hong-kong-voters-expected-to-stay-away-as-patriots-only-local-elections-loom"},"modified":"2023-12-09T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T06:15:41","slug":"its-just-a-show-hong-kong-voters-likely-to-stay-away-as-patriots-only-local-elections-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60450","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s just a show\u2019: Hong Kong voters likely to stay away as \u2018patriots only\u2019 local elections loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a big push by authorities to get out the vote in Sunday\u2019s district council elections, many people see little point in choosing from a list of heavily vetted candidates<\/p>\n<p>Years into a crackdown on opposition and dissent in Hong Kong, observers, experts and exiles say there is very little democratic participation left in the city. But the government is still pushing its own version.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the city will hold <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/hong-kong-district-council-elections-2023\/\">district council elections<\/a>, and chief executive John Lee would very much like people to vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/09\/its-just-a-show-hong-kong-voters-expected-to-stay-away-as-patriots-only-local-elections-loom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a big push by authorities to get out the vote in Sunday\u2019s district council elections, many people see little point in choosing from a list of heavily vetted candidatesYears into a crackdown on opposition and dissent in Hong Kong, observers, exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/60450","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\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60450\/revisions\/60451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}