Hong Kong Legco president and two more lawmakers’ oaths under legal challenge by ex-civil servant
Kwok Cheuk-kin is seeking yet another judicial review, this time against Andrew Leung’s nationality and the allegiances of Lo Wai-kwok and Regina Ip
A retired Hong Kong civil servant known for his legal challenges against the government has taken on two pro-establishment lawmakers and the president of the Legislative Council in a new twist to the oath-taking saga.
Lawmakers Lo Wai-kwok and Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, Kwok further argued, once pledged allegiance to the United Kingdom and its queen, suggesting that they could not be “truthful” when they undertook their Legco oath to serve Hong Kong and Beijing.
Yau and Leung, with student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, have urged America’s president-elect Donald Trump to keep an eye on the city, although he is set to take a US-centric approach to global affairs. At the height of the Occupy protests in 2014, Trump tweeted: “President Obama should stay out of Hong Kong protests, we have enough problems in our own country! Can’t even properly police White House.”