{"id":265791,"date":"2022-05-09T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=265791"},"modified":"2022-05-09T03:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:31:47","slug":"john-lee-elected-as-newhong-kong-chief-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/john-lee-elected-as-newhong-kong-chief-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lee elected as newHong Kong Chief Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Lee, a former security chief, was elected on Sunday as the new Chief Executive of Hong Kong.<br>He won a total of 1,416 votes, surpassing the threshold of 750 votes to win the election held earlier in the day, reports Xinhua news agency. The 64-year-old made a short speech after the announcement of the election results, expressing gratitude to members of the Election Committee who turned out to vote and to the Hong Kong residents.<br>The polling hours ran from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m..<br>Members of the Election Committee cast their secret ballots on a one-person-one-vote basis at the main polling station at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.<br>Lee\u2019s term in office will run from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027. According to a BBC report, he is known for his pro-Beijing hardline views and garnered only 34.8 points out of 100 in a recent popularity survey.<br>He replaces Carrie Lam, who announced last month that she would not seek a second term.<br>Lam, who became the Chief Executive in 2017, had said that her decision was \u201centirely\u201d based on family considerations.<br>The 64-year-old Lee comes from a law enforcement background.<br>In 1977, he joined the Hong Kong police force at the age of 20. His early career focused on tackling criminal activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee, a former security chief, was elected on Sunday as the new Chief Executive of Hong Kong.He won a total of 1,416 votes, surpassing the threshold of 750 votes to win the election held earlier in the day, reports Xinhua news agency. The 64-year-old made a short speech after the announcement of the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":265794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}