According to political scientist Ma Ngok, Hong Kong’s chief executive in theory exercises greater power domestically than popularly elected presidents in 33 countries. But there is a great gap between theory and practice. For a long period in the past 25 years, the Legislative Council has acted in a way that put far greater constraints […]
Western media outlets have been quick to pick up on the turnout rate of 30.2 percent for the Legislative Council election, held on Dec 19, and splash it all over their headlines, seeing the low turnout as an Achilles’-heel-like target to attack in their latest offensive against Hong Kong’s revamped election system, which has been […]
The oath-taking ceremony for members of the seventh-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is held at the LegCo Complex in Hong Kong on Jan 3, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The 90 members of the seventh-term Legislative Council of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were sworn in on Monday. There […]
After a year of extended anticipation due to postponement, the Legislative Council election finally took place on Dec 19 when the people of Hong Kong cast their votes for the new-term LegCo. Over 1.32 million voters flocked to the polls as every single seat was fiercely contested. The last LegCo election in 2016 and the […]
The uneventful and orderly completion of the Legislative Council election on Dec 19 must prove to be a bitter disappointment to the Western media and certain Western powers, as well as their now-defanged proxies in Hong Kong and overseas. They had not only wished it the worst but actively lobbied voters to cast blank votes […]
BEIJING – Over 1 million voters have cast their ballots in the election for the seventh-term Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as of 17:30 on Sunday, crushing a campaign riddled with lies from external forces while demonstrating the true will of the people in the Chinese city. The election, the first […]
With the vetting process for the hopefuls in the Sunday's Legislative Council race duly completed earlier this month by the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee, the first LegCo election under the revamped electoral system is moving full steam ahead. Unlike the District Council election in 2019, which was conducted during the violent anti-extradition protests, the LegCo […]
Sunday’s election of the seventh Legislative Council, the first LegCo election under the new electoral system, marks the dawn of a new era for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region — one of good governance. In the days to come, I believe the new LegCo will perform accurately its roles under the executive-led political system, […]
Several former opposition lawmakers-cum-fugitives from the law have been trying to undermine the upcoming Legislative Council election before appreciative, if not financially supportive, audiences in the West. Rather than wishing Hong Kong success, they prefer to pull it down. By any definition, this is colluding with foreign governments, even treason by the standards of those […]
To the disappointment of the critics, only one of the 154 aspirants running in the upcoming Legislative Council election has failed to pass the candidacy vetting process because of a nonpolitical reason. A key takeaway of the composition of the 153 candidates is that the election will witness robust competition, judging from the diversity of […]
Critics are using biased narratives to discredit Hong Kong’s upcoming Legislative Council election. They claim the absence of sufficient “pan-democrats” in the contender list is a strong stimulant that enables “legitimacy deflation” to grow from a fluffy cumulus cloud on the remote horizon to a threatening nimbus cloud looming above Hong Kong. They also criticize […]
After the ups and downs of the past year, the upcoming Legislative Council election — postponed from 2020 — may very well reshape the political landscape of Hong Kong. With our amended and improved electoral system, we can be sure that only patriots with Hong Kong’s best interests at heart will have seats in the […]
The Candidate Eligibility Review Committee on Aug 26 rejected Civic Passion lawmaker Cheng Chung-tai’s eligibility to sit on the Election Committee because the seven-member review panel had no reason to believe Cheng upholds the Basic Law or bears allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The decision also stripped Cheng of his seat in […]
The upcoming poll to select the Election Committee is the first election under the improved electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The newly returned EC will then select the next-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a large portion of legislative councilors according to the Basic Law and […]
It is the original intent of and a precondition for “one country, two systems”, after China resumed the exercise of sovereign rule over Hong Kong, to ensure the city’s governing power is firmly held in the hands of patriots at all times. The amendments to Annexes I and II to the Basic Law of the […]
In the early morning of Jan 6 this year, the Hong Kong Police Force mobilized more than 1,000 police officers in an operation and arrested 53 people for planning, organizing and participating in an illegal event with separatist intention. According to Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu, the illegal event was none other than the […]
Intense disputation within the LegCo in May 2019, which involved open physical intimidation by Opposition members, played a significant role in laying the foundations, through the example, for the coming mass public protests — and violent civil upheaval — initially directed against the HKSAR Government’s proposed new Extradition Bill. This was, in fact, a needed […]