Yesterday’s local Hong Kong elections
produced a pro-democracy landslide.
“The result of Sunday's elections could
force the central government in Beijing to rethink how to handle the unrest,
which is now in its sixth month. The district councils have little power, but
the vote became a referendum on public support for the protests.
"It's nothing short of a
revolution. This is a landslide," said Willy Lam, a political expert at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "It's a sound repudiation of the
Carrie Lam administration and shows the silent majority are behind the demands
of the protesters."
--CBS News
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at this link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-kong-elections-pro-democracy-side-wins-local-elections-landslide/
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South China Morning Post: “The anti-establishment reverberations from almost six months of street protests swept through polling stations across Hong Kong on Sunday, as voters in record numbers roundly rejected pro-Beijing candidates in favour of pan-democrats.”
“The tsunami of disaffection among voters was clear across the board, as pan-democrats rode the wave to win big in poor and rich neighbourhoods, in both protest-prone and non-protest-afflicted districts and, in downtown areas as well as the suburbs.”
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