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36 elected as HK deputies to legislature

Source: Xinhua | 00:01 UTC+8 December 20, 2017 | Print Edition

THIRTY-SIX people, out of a total of 49 candidates, from different sectors of the Hong Kong society were elected yesterday as deputies to the 13th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature.

The 13th NPC will convene in Beijing to elect new state leaders and discuss state affairs in March.

Bernard Charnwut Chan, the 52-year-old non-official convener of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, topped the ballot tally by winning 1,693 votes from 1,796 members attending the second plenary session of the Conference for Electing Deputies of Hong Kong to the 13th NPC.

A total of 25 deputies were successfully re-elected including Chan, Martin Liao Cheung Kong and Ma Fung-kwok, members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, as well as Ip Kwok-him, a member of the Executive Council.

Among 11 newly elected deputies, Vincent Lee Kwan-ho, a member of Hong Kong’s Financial Services Development Council, won the largest votes, followed by Raymond Tam Chi-yuen, former secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of the Hong Kong government.

Among the 36 deputies were five women, including 55-year-old Cally Kwong Mei-wan, the first runner-up of the 1982 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and popular singer who later became a socialite promoting charity.

Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the NPC Standing Committee Wang Chen attended the second plenary session of the conference, which was presided over by Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR.

In his speech, Wang congratulated on the elected deputies, saying the election for Hong Kong deputies to the 13th NPC had strictly complied with the law and had proceeded by giving full play to democracy.

“It is an open, fair and just election,” he said.

Wang said he believed the elected deputies would inherit the tradition of loving the country and Hong Kong, defend the Constitution and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, support the principle of “One Country, Two Systems,” and earnestly carry out the duties of the deputies, so as to make contributions to building a brighter future for Hong Kong and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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