Youngspiration duo remains in legislative limbo over oath-taking
Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang may be barred from being sworn in and attending meetings of the Legislative Council, but they are officially still lawmakers, receiving a salary and entitled to an office
Youngspiration pair Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang may be barred from being sworn in and attending meetings of the Legislative Council, but they are officially still lawmakers, receiving a salary and entitled to an office.
They are also still allowed to submit written questions. Among Wednesday’s Legco meeting agenda items was a written question about the public records office filed by Leung.
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“The president does not have all the power,” Leung chanted to the Legco head yesterday after he was escorted by his allies into the chamber to attend the meeting. “There are rules binding you. You can’t do whatever you like.”
Indeed, even though Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, having deferred the swearing-in of the duo who insulted China in their first oaths, barred them from entering the chamber, the pair were still able to return to their offices upstairs.
The Legco rule of procedure the president relied on was rule No.1 which says “no member of the council shall attend a meeting or vote” until he has made an oath in accordance with the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance.
The pair are able to receive their monthly salary of HK$93,040 and allowances, a spokeswoman for the Legco Secretariat added. “This is because the government has set October 1 as the starting date of the term of office in accordance with the Legislative Council Ordinance,” she said.