Hong Kong court urged to dismiss voter’s judicial review bid on pan-democrat’s election candidacy
Pro-establishment supporter Wong Tai-hoi lodged application after Au Nok-hin won seat in the recent Legislative Council by-election
A pro-establishment supporter’s judicial challenge on the validity of a newly elected pan-democratic lawmaker should be thrown out of court, Hong Kong’s secretary for justice and the lawmaker both argued on Wednesday, saying the applicant was using the wrong procedure.
Au, who ran in the Hong Kong Island constituency seat, bagged 137,181 votes to beat the New People’s Party’s Judy Chan Ka-pui, who got 127,634.
Wong, a voter from Siu Sai Wan, argued that returning officer Anne Teng Yu-yan, who gave Au the green light to run in the by-election, was wrong. He asked the court to nullify Au’s oath as well as for the government to gazette a clarification that the pan-democrat should not have been validated as a candidate in the first place.
