Mr T
Senior Member
She's a weak leader, but that's because she's got no ideas how to make HK better and hardly anyone trusts her. In terms of law enforcement, she's been tough, e.g. using outdated colonial era emergency powers, refusing to allow for an independent investigation into police conduct, backing Beijing to the hilt and refusing to criticise any policy even a little bit, etc. There's not really anything else she can reasonably do, unless the CCP wanted her to end the last vestiges of democracy and have tens of thousands of HKers sent to prison.
No idea. It's up to the voters. The only question is if the HK government will let him run.
If the official who mailed him the questions is being fair, they will take his word at face value and not block the application for registering for the election. After all, the point of checking the applications is not to select the best candidates or weed out the "wrong sort", it's to check whether or not the criteria has been met - e.g. minimum age met, deposit paid, etc.
If he is stopped from running in the election despite saying he would not carry on with that sort of behaviour, it rather suggests that he was always going to be disqualified and the letter was just sent to give the veneer of legality of refusing him, no doubt because the government assumed he'd refuse to back down and say he'd keep asking for sanctions.
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