What’s next for Hong Kong’s Legco after security law disqualifications and pandemic poll delay?
- 4 years ago
Local politics in Hong Kong have been absorbing the impacts of a new national security law (NSL) imposed on the city by the Chinese central government as well as an election delay blamed on the Covid-19 pandemic. In late July 2020, the city’s election commission cited the NSL as it disqualified 12 potential opposition candidates from running in Legislative Council (Legco) elections initially scheduled for September 6. The day after the disqualifications were announced, Hong Kong leader Carrie…