Hong Kong’s democracy movement took a hit on Monday in a crucial by-election as the city’s pro-Beijing establishment further tightened its grip.
It is another blow to the democratic camp as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks under an assertive China.
Its representation in the legislature suffered a blow in 2016 when six elected lawmakers, including pro-independence activists and former protest leaders, were disqualified following an unprecedented intervention from Beijing.
After the count ended in the early hours of Monday, the democratic camp was left with 26 seats out of 70, meaning they will continue to be outgunned on most bills under the legislature’s “split voting system” as they failed to regain the veto power they lost due to the disqualifications.
In earlier by-elections in March, the democracy camp only managed to take back two of the four contested seats.
The Kowloon West seat contested Sunday had been vacated by pro-democracy activist Lau Siu-lai, one of the legislators ousted from parliament, who was barred last month from trying to win back her seat because of her support for self-determination for Hong Kong.
She was the latest candidate to be blocked from standing as Beijing says it will not tolerate any challenges to its territorial sovereignty.
– With reporting from Agence France-Presse
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Her services is definitely needed in the streets of America… Second thought love ranch cos they are short of girls there….
Her services is definitely needed in the streets of America… Second thought love ranch cos they are short of girls there….
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She must think she’s sexually as attractive as Stormy daniels ???????????? hence deserve the exact same recognition stormy daniel does. Who knows. She might indeed be as prominent and as demanding if she was making those calls in the streets of LA, NY, and Chicago insread of the streets of Hong Kong.
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She must think she’s sexually as attractive as Stormy daniels ???????????? hence deserve the exact same recognition stormy daniel does. Who knows. She might indeed be as prominent and as demanding if she was making those calls in the streets of LA, NY, and Chicago insread of the streets of Hong Kong.
"At the Legislative Council swearing-in on 12 October 2016 Lau first read an altered version of the oath of office in protest. She was asked to read it again, and she did so extremely slowly…" [Wikipedia]
"The statement of no more than 80 words in English took her about 10 minutes to read." [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/asia/hong-kong-legislative-council.html]
So she debased and made a mockery of the office she is seeking, without making amends?
And AT staff writers spin this as "the city’s pro-Beijing establishment further tightened its grip" and "another blow to the democratic camp as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks under an assertive China"?
"At the Legislative Council swearing-in on 12 October 2016 Lau first read an altered version of the oath of office in protest. She was asked to read it again, and she did so extremely slowly…" [Wikipedia]
"The statement of no more than 80 words in English took her about 10 minutes to read." [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/asia/hong-kong-legislative-council.html]
So she debased and made a mockery of the office she is seeking, without making amends?
And AT staff writers spin this as "the city’s pro-Beijing establishment further tightened its grip" and "another blow to the democratic camp as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks under an assertive China"?
This article was more propaganda than substance. The Hong Kong people voted to not support a group that is moronic enough to refer to themselves as a "pro-democracy" group. Apparently when people democractically vote in a way these propagandists don’t like, it is "Beijing tightening its grip" on the city. What a bunch of nonsense.
This article was more propaganda than substance. The Hong Kong people voted to not support a group that is moronic enough to refer to themselves as a "pro-democracy" group. Apparently when people democractically vote in a way these propagandists don’t like, it is "Beijing tightening its grip" on the city. What a bunch of nonsense.