Hong Kong leader John Lee has praised the 27.5% voter turnout in the city’s weekend election, a record low since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
These are sham elections where every candidate even mildly critical of the government has been disqualified. Your criticism is groundless and uninformed.
Voting doesn’t mean much when the CCP decides who you can vote for unfortunately.
There have been documentaries made about the protests and fighting of the Hong Kong people in an effort to keep their civil liberties. I don’t think any of us can fairly say they haven’t done enough or didn’t protest enough.
I don’t know the details of how their voting system works but I’d be surprised if there was such a loophole given how locked down the process for becoming a candidate is.
Ah yes. The best way to silently protest your civil liberties being taken away is not using the most important one. Brilliant!
These are sham elections where every candidate even mildly critical of the government has been disqualified. Your criticism is groundless and uninformed.
Voting doesn’t mean much when the CCP decides who you can vote for unfortunately.
There have been documentaries made about the protests and fighting of the Hong Kong people in an effort to keep their civil liberties. I don’t think any of us can fairly say they haven’t done enough or didn’t protest enough.
Fuck the CCP
True. I didn’t look at it that way. Couldn’t they have wrote in who they want?
I don’t know the details of how their voting system works but I’d be surprised if there was such a loophole given how locked down the process for becoming a candidate is.
It’s a really messed up situation unfortunately.
True. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a dude with a rifle peering over their shoulder as they vote.
Even better, creating a record of who voted for who to be used against them later
Not voting mainland sanctioned leaders is a protest. But china doesn’t recognise it anyway.
They can only vote on CCP approved candidates. Also, 50% of the votes are allocated to big corps like banks.
Their election system is a joke.