Pro-Beijing group member asks Hong Kong court to disqualify 11 lawmakers over Legco oaths
Writ brings number of legislators under judicial review to 15 and comes day before High Court ruling on government case against Youngspiration pair
Hong Kong’s High Court was asked on Monday to disqualify nearly a dozen more localist and pan-democrat lawmakers on the eve of its much-anticipated ruling on the validity of the oaths taken by two young radicals last month.
A week after the country’s top legislature interpreted the city’s mini-constitution to shut out independence advocacy in the Legislative Council, a member of pro-establishment group Voice of Loving Hong Kong claimed in a fresh judicial review application that 11 other lawmakers also did not deserve their seats.
In his submission, Ricky Chan Ka-wai, a restaurant waiter, asked that all newly elected lawmakers who had failed to be sworn in “sincerely” be stripped of their Legco seats.
He questioned the conduct of 11 pan-democrat legislators, including Dr Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung, Roy Kwong Chun-yu, Lam Cheuk-ting, Andrew Wan Siu-kin and Helena Wong Pik-wan.
