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Hong Kong elections: opposition scrambles for support ahead of nominations deadline, a day after candidates barred from running
- Activists out in force to secure backing for Plan B, C, D and X hopefuls after 12 members disqualified
- Opposition had targeted first majority in Legislative Council after district success
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Opposition activists were out in force in Hong Kong on Friday morning collecting nominations for unnamed candidates, a day after the government banned 12 of their members from running in the Legislative Council elections.
On Thursday, an unprecedented number of rising localist activists, young district councillors and incumbent lawmakers were disqualified from September’s vote, just a month after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong.
Sources said the government was likely to also postpone the elections for a year in response to the coronavirus. But it remains uncertain whether the nomination period would be pushed back as well.
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Hours before the nomination deadline at 5pm, opposition district councillors were making a last-ditch effort to help secure nominations for the camp’s backup candidates across the city.
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Any candidate eyeing a seat in the geographical constituency needs at least 100 registered voters from the constituency concerned.
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