Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam declares ‘return of peace’ to Legco, restored faith in political system after Beijing’s lawmakers ruling
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Hong Kong’s beleaguered leader has declared she now holds great confidence in the relationship between the government and legislature following a Beijing ruling which resulted in the mass resignation of local opposition lawmakers.
In what Lam called the “return of peace”, her high-profile annual speech on Wednesday to the Legislative Council and the following day’s question and answer session was free of the protests and heckling that had punctuated previous ones.
“My confidence in the relationship between the executive branch and the legislature has resumed, at least for now with the new legal framework,” Lam told a radio show on Thursday, referring to Beijing’s resolution on lawmaker conduct passed earlier in the month.
“I am more willing to go to Legco from now on to communicate with lawmakers.”
It led to the immediate unseating of four opposition legislators, which in turn triggered 15 colleagues to quit in protest.