Election ban rules ‘very clear’, Carrie Lam insists, but says government will ‘seriously consider’ clarifying them if needed
Remarks come after two pro-establishment figures concede that laws on disqualification of candidates are unclear
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has insisted that the current rules for disqualifying election candidates are “very clear”, after two pro-establishment figures conceded that this was not the case.
But the chief executive also said that “if there [was] a need to clarify the rules and the criteria by amending local legislation”, the government would “seriously consider” doing so.
Since last month, Hong Kong’s electoral officers have banned three activists from running in the Legislative Council by-election in March on the grounds that they were not considered to be “genuinely and truly intending to uphold the Basic Law”, the city’s mini-constitution.
