Thread by @XinqiSu

#NOW Pro-Beijing lawmaker Regina Ip is ready for House Committee chair election presided by Chan Kin-por, the insurance sector legislator appointed by LegCo president to replace @cpdenniskwok .
Chan got the top chair while reporters outside are still wondering how he got in.

Appointed House Com presiding member Chan Kin-por and his human cordon formed by LegCo security guards with black leather gloves.
The committee is set to elect chairs today, a task loathed by Beijing as long overdue and paralysing LegCo. Pic via @YuxuanMichael

Pro dem lawmakers are surrounding the LegCo security guards around Chan Kin-por and the meeting is now having a standstill.
Democrat Ted Hui told Chan he is unlawfully occupying the top chair and trying to convene an unlawful meeting.

“CCP tramples HK legislature” says the placard held by pro dem lawmaker Claudia Mo. “Beijing loyalists abuse power,” says another one held by Labour Party’s Fernando Cheung.

Mobile air time in House Committer standstill.

Shortly before 11am, scuffles flared up at House Committee meeting as pro dem lawmakers tried to surround themselves, the security guards and presiding lawmaker Chan Kin-Por with a big piece of black cloth.

Convener of pro dem and Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan was the first to be evicted.

Democrat Ted Hui was once pinned to ground when LegCo security guards tried to remove him.

#earlier in House Committee: Pro Beijing camp snatched the black cloth from pro dem and called it an evidence of “black violence”

#earlier in House Committee, Democrat Lam Cheuk-ting unbound a copy of Rules of Procedure and threw the pages at Chan Kin-por