New election date: Sep 5, 2021.
Actually completely baffled that the HK government is admitting that the chief executive has to invoke emergency powers to delay the elections because otherwise, “it could be regarded as an abuse of power”
If the government really cared about allowing Hong Kongers abroad to vote they’d have absentee voting 🙄. https://t.co/P9zax72JkH
Seriously... she keeps doing this. It’s like she thinks this is hilarious. https://t.co/6EvB8VBc6J
“Everything is done in accordance to the law.” - Carrie Lam
OKAY
“Online voting, voting outside of hk, postal voting are all things we should do to modernize Hong Kong’s electoral system” - says Carrie Lam without offering any reason why it hasn’t been done
When @tomgrundy asked why the govt didn’t have a contingency plan in place, Carrie Lam replies, *with a chuckle*, that no one could have predicted the pandemic.
We got our first case in Jan. Our govt is one of the world’s most well-prepared for novel infectious diseases.
“What we need is solidarity. We need solidarity locally and we need solidarity nationally.” — says the leader of a government that just disqualified 12 opposition candidates and took away the right of people to vote for the next year
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