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No-confidence motion planned against Legco president Andrew Leung over debate on Hong Kong joint checkpoint for cross-border high-speed rail link
Pan-democratic lawmakers claim pro-Beijing leader violated house rules
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Twenty-six Hong Kong lawmakers have decided to move a no-confidence motion against Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen over his handling of the debate on a controversial joint checkpoint plan involving a cross-border express rail link.
The move by 25 pan-democrats and independent medical sector legislator Pierre Chan on Friday came a day after the bill allowing mainland Chinese authorities to enforce national laws within Hong Kong’s express rail terminus at West Kowloon was passed.
The bill won backing from 40 members of the pro-establishment camp. The pan-democrats denounced the plan as “contravening the Basic Law”, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution.
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Meanwhile, Occupy Central leader Benny Tai Yiu-ting called for a judicial review against Leung for imposing restrictions on the bill debate. Tai claimed he had violated Legco house rules.
To ensure the bill would be passed in time for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link to open in September as scheduled, Leung capped the debate time at 36 hours and threw out more than 50 amendments proposed by the pan-democrats.
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