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Hong Kong’s pan-democrats to save firepower for controversial issues in Legislative Council, convenor Charles Mok reveals
Opposition plans to eschew obscure tactics in Legco to avoid rule book changes, lawmaker says
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Hong Kong’s pan-democrat lawmakers will save their limited firepower to use on controversial issues and eschew obscure Legislative Council procedural tactics to oppose legislation, their outgoing convenor said.
In an interview with the Post, Charles Mok reflected on recent events, especially the highly charged debates over changes to Legco’s rule book and the controversial joint checkpoint, or so-called co-location, plan for the cross-border express rail terminus.
“Our camp has reached a consensus that we won’t push the rule book to its limits and dig up clauses that have never been used before,” he said. “Use a trick once [to block a bill], and that rule book trick may be blocked next time.”
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The IT sector lawmaker, of the Professionals Guild group, has been coordinator of the pan-democratic camp for the past year and will hand over to Claudia Mo Man-ching of the Council Front after the summer break.
The bloc holds 25 seats out of 68 in Legco, having lost six lawmakers last year after they were disqualified in the oath-taking saga. Being in the minority, the camp could not stop the amendments to Legco’s rules of procedures last December.
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