{"id":10799,"date":"2021-01-20T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118537\/row-between-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-and-ex-chief-cy"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:14:00","slug":"row-between-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-and-ex-chief-cy-leung-deepens-as-top-adviser-weighs-in-on-issue-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/row-between-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-and-ex-chief-cy-leung-deepens-as-top-adviser-weighs-in-on-issue-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Row between Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and ex-chief CY Leung deepens as top adviser weighs in on issue of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"A row between a former Hong Kong leader and the current administration intensified on Wednesday as a leading government adviser weighed in on the heated political reform debate, insisting the city\u2019s chief executive should be picked through elections.The dispute erupted on Monday when former chief executive Leung Chun-ying told a media outlet that it would still be lawful if the city\u2019s next leader was picked without an election. Incumbent leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor dismissed the idea the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118537\/row-between-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-and-ex-chief-cy\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A row between a former Hong Kong leader and the current administration intensified on Wednesday as a leading government adviser weighed in on the heated political reform debate, insisting the city\u2019s chief executive should be picked through elections.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"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\/10799"}],"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\/949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}