Hong Kong Government Ousts Elected Lawmaker #ChengChungTai by "Disqualification"
The ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’ of the Hong Kong SAR Government ousted CHENG Chung-tai, one of the final two opposition lawmakers from the city's lawmaking body, Legislative Council, on Thursday, 26 Aug, 2021. The news was announced by Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu.
Hong Kong's next Chief Executive will be selected by a non-elected 1,500-membered electoral in 2022. All of the members must be screened by the ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’, chaired by #JohnLee, the city's former Security Chief.
The Committee has reviewed 1,498 electoral candidates and disqualified two of them. One of them is opposition lawmaker CHENG Chung-tai. Lee claimed, once Cheng loses his electoral candidature, he is disqualified immediately from his lawmaker seat.
Lee claimed that the committee had asked Cheng for information in ‘some matters’. After Cheng replied, the Committee for ‘Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong SAR’ said Cheng did not qualify.
Source: Initium Media #Aug27
https://bit.ly/3ykshFu
#PoliticalSuppression #Disqualifications #DQ #PoliceState #FakeElection #ChiefExecutiveElection #NationalSecurityLaw
The ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’ of the Hong Kong SAR Government ousted CHENG Chung-tai, one of the final two opposition lawmakers from the city's lawmaking body, Legislative Council, on Thursday, 26 Aug, 2021. The news was announced by Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu.
Hong Kong's next Chief Executive will be selected by a non-elected 1,500-membered electoral in 2022. All of the members must be screened by the ‘Candidate Eligibility Review Committee’, chaired by #JohnLee, the city's former Security Chief.
The Committee has reviewed 1,498 electoral candidates and disqualified two of them. One of them is opposition lawmaker CHENG Chung-tai. Lee claimed, once Cheng loses his electoral candidature, he is disqualified immediately from his lawmaker seat.
Lee claimed that the committee had asked Cheng for information in ‘some matters’. After Cheng replied, the Committee for ‘Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong SAR’ said Cheng did not qualify.
Source: Initium Media #Aug27
https://bit.ly/3ykshFu
#PoliticalSuppression #Disqualifications #DQ #PoliceState #FakeElection #ChiefExecutiveElection #NationalSecurityLaw
端傳媒 Initium Media
晚報：資審會完成審查選委會參選人，鄭松泰資格無效、隨即喪失立法會議席
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Hong Kong Government Questions the Oath of Seven Pro-democracy District Councillors
On September 10, 2021, the Hong Kong SAR government demanded directly elected district councillors on Hong Kong Island to take oath, pledging allegiance. They are the first batch of district councillors scheduled for oath-taking.
The authorities accused seven pro-democracy district councillors who swore oaths of allegiance of being "questionable".
The seven councillors are Clarisse Yeung and Leung Pak-kin from the Wan Chai district council; Wei Siu-lik, So Yat-hang, Chan Wing-tai and Lai Tsz-yan from Eastern district; and Southern district's Michael Pang.
Peter Choi, a pro-democracy district councillor who didn’t show up, has been immediately 'disqualified' and removed from his seat by the authorities.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Sept10
https://thestandnews.page.link/G8ZiXrEot1uUcCJq9
#PoliceState #Oath #DQ #DistrictCouncil #Disqualifications
On September 10, 2021, the Hong Kong SAR government demanded directly elected district councillors on Hong Kong Island to take oath, pledging allegiance. They are the first batch of district councillors scheduled for oath-taking.
The authorities accused seven pro-democracy district councillors who swore oaths of allegiance of being "questionable".
The seven councillors are Clarisse Yeung and Leung Pak-kin from the Wan Chai district council; Wei Siu-lik, So Yat-hang, Chan Wing-tai and Lai Tsz-yan from Eastern district; and Southern district's Michael Pang.
Peter Choi, a pro-democracy district councillor who didn’t show up, has been immediately 'disqualified' and removed from his seat by the authorities.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Sept10
https://thestandnews.page.link/G8ZiXrEot1uUcCJq9
#PoliceState #Oath #DQ #DistrictCouncil #Disqualifications
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