A few days ago, the last general meeting of the sixth Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed the "farewell bill", and Chairman Leung Jun-yan's "testimonial" was that the Legislative Council had experienced "terrifying waves" in 5 years, which was even worse under the epidemic, but the Legislative Council "can finally start again".
In this way, it seems as if there is still some comfort. However, for the general public and taxpayers, seeing the report submitted by the Legislative Council Executive Committee, the millions of yuan of public funds can no longer be recovered from those few DQ legislators, the heart is very unhappy, feel that the Legislative Council has not fulfilled its responsibilities, it is time to hit the board! The report shows that the arrears of these legislators are almost in bad debt, indicating that the Legislative Council is very ineffective in recovering them and is suspected of letting go of the creditors.
These sums are divided into two large sums, one is Leung Song Heng, You Huizhen and Leung Kwok Hung, who were disqualified from parliament for taking the oath of office in 2016, of which 930,000 yuan was recovered for Leung Song Heng, because he was judged to be a bankrupt person, "walking" in the United States, and the government intends to abandon the account, allegedly because "it is not worth spending more litigation money to take retribution action against Leung Song Heng". You Huizhen also owes 930,000 yuan, after "settlement", payment in installments, only 175,000 yuan was repaid in the year, as of March 31 this year, You Huizhen even owed nearly 1.03 million yuan with interest. Liang Guoxiong owes the most money, as high as 2.23 million yuan, and has not yet been repaid, and the government has taken him as a "charm".
The second is the opposition "four king kongs" Yang Yueqiao, Kwok Wing-hoon, Kwok Ka-chiu and Leung Ji-cheung, who were disqualified from parliament last year and owed a total of 4.72 million yuan to the government for the honorariums, medical allowances, prepaid working capital, etc. The Legislative Council "reconciled" with them, only 480,000 yuan was collected.
In contrast, the Legislative Council's annual fiscal deficit was nearly $3.6 million, mainly due to the increase in expenditure on members' honorariums, medical allowances and expiry honorariums, which increased from about $80 million in the previous year to about $120 million in the previous year, and the members of the Legislative Council significantly increased their remuneration and increased operating expenses of the Members' Office.
Seeing such financial reports and the bad performance of the parliamentarians over the years, they also make a big fuss about adding labor to themselves from time to time, claiming to "align with the salary level of the secretary general", who can not be angry!
This article was originally published in Hong Kong's "Oriental Daily", the original title of "Dragon Yin Tiger Roar: The Legislative Council Makes People Angry"