Phone-snatching lawmaker Ted Hui cleared by party disciplinary panel, likely to contest Legco elections again
- It’s up to voters to decide if Hui should stay in politics, party chief says
- Eager to put past behind him, Hui says he’s ‘made poor political judgments’
An opposition lawmaker is expected to seek re-election in the Legislative Council polls in September after surviving his party’s disciplinary action for snatching a civil servant’s phone in 2018.
Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung, 37, will likely be endorsed to defend his Hong Kong Island seat, party vice-chairman Lo Kin-hei said on Friday.
“I believe the public can see his level of involvement in the recent social movement,” Lo said, referring to the ongoing anti-government protests which are now in their eighth month.
Hui has been seen often in recent months at protest sites, intervening between protesters and police.
During a protest on New Year’s Day, he was pepper-sprayed at close range by an officer who twice removed the lawmaker’s googles and asked him to retreat from a road to the pavement.
