CHINA-HONGKONG: ELECTIONS

59-year Ms Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was elected Hong Kong’s next Chief Executive on March 26, 2017. She was Beijing's preferred candidate and won 777 votes from the 1,194-member Election Committee, composed mostly of Beijing loyalists. The former Chief Secretary beat former Finance chief John Tsang Chun-wah and retired judge Woo Kwok-hing Lam. Soon after Carrie Lam's election, the central leader in charge of Hongkong organized a 'leak' to the press revealing that the next Chief Executive had been selected in a December 25th Politburo meeting.

Soon after her election, police officers called three chief organisers of the 79-day sit-ins, Occupy Central co-founders Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Reverend Chu Yiu-ming and Dr Chan Kin-man; League of Social Democrats activist Raphael Wong Ho-ming and former legislator Lee Wing-tat; legislators Tanya Chan and Shiu Ka-chun and two more student leaders. They were called to police headquarters in Wan Chai, where they are expected to face arrest and charge.





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