{"id":85344,"date":"2016-03-18T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T03:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=85344"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:38:28","slug":"dab-keeps-distance-c-y-slippery-election-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/dab-keeps-distance-c-y-slippery-election-road\/","title":{"rendered":"DAB keeps distance from C Y on slippery election road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Amid speculation about the fate of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying\u2019s re-election bid, the sudden departure of Starry Lee Wai-king, leader of the pro-government flagship DAB, from the Executive Council has poured oil to fire.<\/p>\n<p>For obvious reasons, the rival pan-democrats have claimed Lee\u2019s resignation was a \u201cjump-out from the (sinking) ship,\u201d referring to Leung\u2019s team. Democrat legislator James To Kun-sun questioned whether the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong is still \u201cpro-Leung.\u201d The Leung ship, he said, \u201cis falling into pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another pan-democrat Cyd Ho Sau-lan said Lee is anxious to sever ties with Leung as the September Legislative Council elections is drawing near.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/03\/18\/dab-keeps-distance-from-c-y-on-slippery-election-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/03\/18\/dab-keeps-distance-from-c-y-on-slippery-election-road\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21137,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-socialissue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cy0318.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-mcw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}