The "wind ball" is coming, and the rain is falling.
The usually brilliant Victoria Harbour is disappearing in the chaos.
1 Legislative Council Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, the Legislative Council Complex, is even more noisy in the chaos.
Legislative council
In the past four years, in this building, the parliamentarians have held 143 meetings, named 1478 times, wasted 450 hours, met 18 times, and wasted more than 90 million public funds. In the past 1 year, it is even more difficult to look back, 596 roll call, 11 stream meetings...
Fortunately, in this embarrassing record, the Legislative Council completed the change of term. The 70 newly elected legislators stood in front of the citizens of Hong Kong and promised to give them ideas and suggestions for the future well-being of the city, and to put back on the solemnity and seriousness of the legislators.
However, the first meeting has not yet taken place, and the saliva of the chairmanship dispute has already spread through the streets. The pro-establishment faction wants to push Liang Junyan, and the non-pro-establishment faction wants to push Tu Jinshen, one is the vice chairman of the last Legislative Council, and the other is a "pan-democratic" big man who has been re-elected to the Legislative Council for six consecutive terms. A battle for fame? A battle for power? Yes and no.
In fact, the pro-establishment faction holds 40 seats, which is already a sure victory. But the non-establishment faction is not willing and dissatisfied, and always has to do some articles. Thus, the nationality storm emerged.
The Basic Law stipulates that the President of the Legislative Council cannot have the right of abode in a foreign country. Liang Junyan got into trouble. The non-establishment claimed that the man was British; Leung explained that he had renounced his British citizenship. The curtain was pulled open, smoke was everywhere, and spit was flying. On 11 October, the day before the election of the president, Leung submitted to the Legislative Council Secretariat documents issued by the Home Office stating that he had renounced his British citizenship on 30 September.
If you don't believe it, it's not over. Homegrown self-determination mp Zhu Kaidi is gone, and he wants to go to England to investigate. He questioned the efficiency of Britain's deregistration of Leung Jun-yan's British citizenship too well, claiming that Britain's involvement in the Hong Kong Legislative Council election violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration (yes, at this time, he remembered the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which he wanted to use to defend himself). On October 17, he arrived in London, ate a closed-door soup, and then stood outside the door to petition, holding a sign that read, "Homeoffice give hongkong an answer."
The foreplay was done too well and the climax came too quickly. On election day, there was more than just saliva flying in the air. Adjourning, resuming, changing venues, protesting, leaving, tearing up votes, Liang Junyan finally sat on the chairman's throne with a 38:0 vote in the absence of most non-pro-establishment protests. He said, my heart is so heavy. It's not just him, the citizens sitting in front of the TV, how could it not be so!
Jumping beam show
The hilarity continues, and the drama begins.
On October 12, the new Legislative Council opened, and members took the oath in accordance with the Basic Law and rules of procedure. The opposition staged a concentrated beam jumping show.
"Long-haired" Liang Guoxiong appeared. He held up a yellow umbrella in his hand, held the "831" decision, and shouted "The people decide independently, I want double universal suffrage."
"Labor Party" MP Zhang Chaoxiong appeared, took the oath, and tore off the "831" decision prop paper.
"Democratic Party" lawmaker Wong Bi-yun appeared, shouting "Restart political reform, Leung Chun-ying step down" and "Water Services Department immediately check the water".
Shao Jiazhen, a member of the Social Welfare Council, appeared, slapping the object of the suspected musical instrument in his hand and shouting "Umbrella movement, defeat without collapse, continue to be tenacious, we are back (I Hu Hansan is back again)"
"People's Power" Chen Zhiquan, "Hot-Blooded Citizen" Zheng Songtai, and "Democratic Party" Kwong Chun-woo appeared, still shouting and shouting.
Yao Songyan, a member of the Building SurveyIng Council, is a cultural man who looks more "shy" and "reserved". He mixed the bootlegs he was going to say into the oath, but the secretary-general in charge of supervising the oath did not let him pass the test. Reluctant to put down his bootlegs, he read it again, and the result was the same.
It's not over yet. There are talented people in the Jiangshan generation, and a generation of new people wins over the old people. The young people in the back perfectly interpreted this law, and challenged their predecessors on the runway with the brain hole of the sky and the action they wanted.
"Xiaoli Democracy Classroom" Hou Ren Mp, Liu Xiaoli, appeared, she read very slowly, very slowly, very slowly, every 6 seconds jumped out a word, 80 words of oath read for a full 13 minutes, 13 minutes, 13 minutes.
Young New Deal-elect Leung Chung-hang appeared, making a shawl for his performance today, printed with "Hongkong is not China" (Hong Kong is not China). He pronounced the oath in English, and he read it quickly, and he pronounced "china" as "China."
His good friend You Huizhen appeared, and she wore the same shawl as Liang Songheng, but spread it on the oath table. She also pronounced the oath in English, she also read it quickly, she also pronounced "china" as "Indochina", but she wanted to surpass her "comrades-in-arms", she pronounced "republic" as "re-fucking" (dirty words).
But most of them passed. Yes, in addition to Yao Songyan, Liang Songheng, You Huizhen, and Liu Xiaoli, who was later questioned for being insincere.
Opportunism is tolerable, but the crime of insulting the country and the people is not a great crime. The pro-establishment legislators are angry, the Hong Kong media is angry, the government is angry, the people are angry, and the Chinese are angry. It was condemnation, condemnation, and demonstration, and the rare unity in Hong Kong in recent years has suddenly arrived.
Liang Songheng and You Huizhen did not think so. Liang found some good reasons for himself, this is the fashion to understand, this is the accent of their hometown Ofan Zhou understand no, this is the use of this to practice the already poor English understanding? Refuse to apologize, refuse to apologize again, reiterate the refusal to apologize.
It's not over yet
While the crowd is raging, I am at ease. Chairman Liang Junyan struck.
- Rule that several people have taken the oath invalid and allow them to take a new oath.
Uncle Island said he couldn't understand it. Isn't such an arrogant and explicit "Hong Kong independence" proposition and a vicious and crude insult to the country a direct disqualification of a congressman?
Liang Junyan gave his understanding. He may think that several people have submitted written applications to retake the oath, he may think that there is no limit to the number of oaths taken in the law, and he may think that these elected deputies still have inviolable rights.
The Department of Justice couldn't take it anymore. On 18 October, the day before several people were allowed to take the oath of office the following day, the Department of Justice applied to the High Court for an emergency hearing on behalf of the Chief Executive and the Secretary for Justice, seeking permission for judicial review to overturn the ruling that the new Leung Kwan Yan had allowed Leung Andh Hung and Yau to take the oath again.
As soon as this move came out, neither the establishment nor Liang Junyan did it. The former quickly rallied 27 lawmakers to protest, saying that this was a gross interference in the legislation by the executive, that it was a serious disruption of the separation of powers, and that it was a shameless abuse of court procedures. The latter said, I object, I insist, I am right, as long as there is no restraining order, tomorrow the oath will proceed as usual.
At this moment, Liang Songheng typed a line on Facebook: Let the horse come!
The decision is in the hands of the judge. At 9 p.m. that night, the court held a hearing, accepted judicial review, and rejected the interim injunction. And that means tomorrow's oath can go ahead.
It's s oath-taking day again. It's back to the familiar plot.
The Legislative Council is lined up with a full agenda, 20 minutes to "settle" the fight.
But yes, the drift meeting was over, and the pro-establishment legislators left en masse before Liang and You took the oath. Asking for a roll call, the number of people was insufficient, and Liang Junyan announced the flow of the meeting.
Non-establishment legislators rushed out, and the two armies began to confront, scold, and fight. As "long-haired" Liang Guoxiong threw lunch meat in the pro-establishment camp, pushing and shoving, the ugly side of the opposition was presented to the world through satellite signals.
Zheng Songtai, a hot-blooded citizen, chose to stay at the venue. He was a player, and he raised the flag and the district flag in the venue. I saw him put them upside down on the table one by one, running back and forth, having a lot of fun. Liang Junyan ordered him to return to his seat and did not listen; ordered him to stop his misconduct and did not listen; ordered him to leave the venue, or did not listen; ordered the security guards to expel him, but he still did not leave. Liang Junyan stood up and retreated.
One wave has not subsided, another wave is coming, and people are already waiting for a possible recurrence of the farce next Wednesday. Will the establishment continue to facilitate the stream? Will the unincorporated factions come up with new tricks? Will the mass rally demonstrations outside the venue be more spectacular? Here, anything is possible.
You may already feel too chaotic, this is the free world, this is the rule of law society, this is the Oriental Pearl with the spirit of Lion Rock?
Just one of the ends. There are also "Hong Kong independence" storms; there are also perpetrators of "Occupy Central" and "Mong Kok riots" who are at large...
It's all storms, it's all storms.
In 2002, when then-Premier Zhu Rongji inspected Hong Kong, he used his lyrics at the end of his speech to encourage everyone:
In the same boat under the Lion Rock and together,...... The ideal goes to chase together, and the people in the same boat swear to follow, Fearless and fearless, at the same cape of the sky, Hand in hand to smooth the rugged, everyone with hard work, Write down the immortal Xiangjiang famous sentence.
Nowadays, under the great concept of one country, two systems, who has forgotten this spirit and who has written this answer sheet?
ps: Tonight, the Hong Kong Observatory forecast: tomorrow there will be frequent winds and heavy rain, large waves and surges on the sea surface, and strong typhoon No. 3.
And "the sun and the stars are shining, the mountains are sneaking", this ghost weather!
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