{"id":29653,"date":"2012-09-10T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29653 "},"modified":"2012-09-10T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:38:00","slug":"29653-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29653","title":{"rendered":"Large Numbers of Hong Kong Voters Hit Polls after Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) – Hong Kong voters thronged the polls on Sunday, many fuelled by anti-China sentiment, to vote for a new legislature, in a sign of more problems ahead for the city’s new Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying.<\/span><\/div>
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About 53 percent of 3.4 million registered voters cast their ballots – up from 45.2 percent in the last election in 2008 – a day after Leung backed down from a plan for compulsory patriotic Chinese education in schools, a policy that drew tens of thousands of people to a 10-day protest.<\/span><\/div>
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Results are expected to start trickling in from 6 a.m. on Monday (2200 GMT on Sunday) until around midday.<\/span><\/div>
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Although the outcome will not change Leung’s policy position, high voter turnout is likely to benefit the opposition pro-democracy camp and make it more difficult for him to pass measures in a fractious legislature during his five-year term.<\/span><\/div>
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“The national education issue antagonized many parents, so many of them came out to vote,” said Lingnan University politics professor Li Pang-kwong, referring to the patriotism classes that protesters described as Communist Party propaganda aimed at indoctrinating children.<\/span><\/div>
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“It is also because of dissatisfaction with the performance of the Hong Kong government and emergence of a strong Hong Kong identify due to unhappiness with having to compete with new settlers and tourists from mainland China for housing, transport, hospital beds and so on,” Li said.<\/span><\/div>
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<div>Largely fueled by anti-China sentiment, the voters cast ballots for a new legislature. &nbsp;Citizens have been irate over a new mainland-backed curriculum which they see as brain-washing.. &nbsp;The city&#8217;s leader, Leung Chun-ying, backed off of the curriculum a day before the vote.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}