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When Hong Kong pan-democracy lawmakers were deprived of their posts for asserting Hong Kong’s independence, their colleagues confronted them by declaring “all resignation.”
According to major foreign media such as AP and CNN, 15 pan-democratic lawmakers from Hong Kong’s legislative meeting on the 11th (local time) announced that they would all resign in protest against the Hong Kong government’s deprivation of their fellow lawmakers.
Earlier, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (non-university), China’s highest legislative body, adopted a resolution that would deprive the legislative member of the legislative council in case of supporting Hong Kong’s independence, denying China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong, request foreign intervention to intervene in Hong Kong or threaten national security.
The Hong Kong government immediately announced that it would deprive four members of the pandemocratic camp, including Alvin Jung, Kukkhaki, Dennis Geck and Kenneth Lung. That is why they visited the United States in July last year and urged US officials and legislators to enact the Hong Kong Human Rights Act.
Representative Wu Chiwei, representing the field of pan-democracy, said: “All of our colleagues have decided to resign for their co-workers who lost their parliamentary positions due to the ruthless repression of the Chinese government. Hong Kong is no longer one country and two. systems. “No.”
Congresswoman Claudia Mo also noted that “The deprivation of opposition lawmakers is a bell announcing the death of Hong Kong democracy.”
British Foreign Minister Dominic Rab, who returned Hong Kong to China in 1997 and made a condition for maintaining a one-country system for at least 50 years, said: “Harassment, repression and deprivation of parliamentary seats in Hong Kong’s opposition pandemic it is both the international reputation of China and Hong Kong. It will undermine the long-term stability of the company, “he criticized.
However, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Won-bin said: “It is a reasonable decision that has been deprived of the legislative position and is in accordance with the Constitution and the Law.
Hong Kong Executive Minister Carrie Ram, who is supported by the Chinese government, also held a press conference and said: “Deprivation of members of legislators is in accordance with the Constitution.”
The four lawmakers who have been deprived of their positions cannot run for the legislative assembly elections to be held in September next year. Among them, Representative Dennis Gwok stressed that “it is rather an honor to lose his position in the fight for democracy.”
