{"id":10118,"date":"2021-01-19T06:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118300\/carrie-lam-defends-value-election-process-hong-kongs-chief"},"modified":"2021-01-19T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:25:43","slug":"carrie-lam-defends-value-of-election-process-for-hong-kongs-chief-executive-post-as-beijing-mulls-drastic-overhaul-of-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/carrie-lam-defends-value-of-election-process-for-hong-kongs-chief-executive-post-as-beijing-mulls-drastic-overhaul-of-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Lam defends value of election process for Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive post as Beijing mulls drastic overhaul of system"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s leader has distanced herself from her predecessor\u2019s suggestion the city\u2019s next chief executive could be selected without an electoral process.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday said elections were important because the polls allowed hopefuls to elaborate on their vision for Hong Kong.\u201c[The process] not only allows a chief executive to be elected, it lets candidates explain to the whole society their expectations and policies for the city,\u201d she said ahead of her\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118300\/carrie-lam-defends-value-election-process-hong-kongs-chief\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader has distanced herself from her predecessor\u2019s suggestion the city\u2019s next chief executive could be selected without an electoral process.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday said elections were important because the po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10253,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}