HONG KONG, Nov 23 — Nearly six months of anti-government protests are set to thrust Hong Kong’s lowest-tier of government onto the international stage on Sunday with elections that will be a test of support for the embattled administration of Chief Executive Carrie...
Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 05:54 PM MYTPeople campaign for Jacqueline Chung, a candidate in Sunday’s district council elections in Hong Kong, China, November 23, 2019. — Reuters pic’s lowest-tier of government onto the international stage on Sunday with elections that will be a test of support for the embattled administration of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.’s 18 district councils, which function as advisory bodies and control local spending.
Cheung, 25, runs a business that trades agricultural products and had planned to study abroad until an attack in Yuen Long on July 21 made him change his mind. Cheung said that while district councillors must tend to neighbourhood matters, it would be inappropriate to focus solely on local issues given the simmering, often violent, protests that have shaken the China-ruled city.
If the pro-democracy campaigners gain control of the district councils in Sunday’s vote, they could secure six seats on the city’s Legislative Council, or parliament, and 117 seats on the 1,200-member committee that selectsAlthough pro-democracy campaigners expect to gain votes, Ivan Choy, a senior lecturer on electoral politics at the Chinese University of“If the district council elections had been conducted in May, June, or July, I think the democrats would have had a landslide victory,” said...
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