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Legislative Council due to lack of quorum, Liang Junyan sent a letter to announce the resumption of the meeting tomorrow morning

2020-05-20T11:23:22.541Z


The Legislative Council convened a meeting of the General Assembly today (20th) until 5:45 pm. The meeting was considering the extension of three subsidiary laws on the "Prevention and Control of Disease Regulations". The Citizen Party Guo Jiaqi requested a count of the number of people due to insufficient quorum At six o'clock, Liang Junyan announced the circulation. However, after half an hour, Liang Junyan sent a letter to all the members of the Parliament, announcing the resumed meeting at 9 o'clock tomorrow.


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Written by: Wu Zhuoan

2020-05-20 18:27

Date of last update: 2020-05-20 19:14

The Legislative Council convened a meeting of the General Assembly today (20th) until 5:45 pm. The meeting was considering the extension of three subsidiary laws on the "Prevention and Control of Disease Regulations". The Citizen Party Guo Jiaqi requested a count of the number of people due to insufficient quorum At six o'clock, Liang Junyan announced the circulation. However, after half an hour, Liang Junyan sent a letter to all the members of the Parliament, announcing the resumed meeting at 9 o'clock tomorrow.

Guo Jiaqi demanded that the number of members be counted. Together with Liang Junyan, only 34 MPs were present. Among the Democrats, only Democrat Chairman Hu Zhiwei and the accounting profession Liang Jichang were present. Legislative Council Chairman Liang Junyan announced that he would quit due to insufficient quorum.

In terms of institutionalism, Huang Guojian of the Federation of Trade Unions, Liu Guoxun of the Democratic Alliance for Development, Liang Meifen, Shi Liqian, Jing Huafeng and Lu Weiguo, Yi Zhiming and Zhong Guobin of the Liberal Party, Xie Weiquan and He Junyao of the construction and measurement park were not present. Roundtable Tian Beichen went to Beijing to attend the two sessions.

Xie Weiquan, who was absent from the construction and measurement industry, said that because he went to the Wan Chai Telecommunications Building to be interviewed by the NOW TV station to explain the report of the Supervisory Commission and related work, he could only rush back to the Legislative Council Building a few minutes before the chairman announced the meeting. Regrets, especially with only two months remaining in the current Legislative Council, more than 30 bills have been backlogged and passed, but the general public has not yet used the meeting time effectively, by constantly counting the number of people and pulling the team to leave In the conference hall, criticizing the practice wastes public money and ignores people's livelihood.

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Less than half an hour after the meeting, Liang Junyan sent a letter to all members, stating that in accordance with Rules 17 (6) and 14 (4) of the Rules of Procedure, the Chairman now decided to convene a meeting to continue to deal with the unfinished agenda of today ’s Legislative Council meeting matter. The meeting will start at 9am as originally scheduled and will adjourn at approximately 7pm.

After amending the Rules of Procedure in 2017, the President of the Legislative Council has the power to order the resumption of the meeting immediately after the meeting. If the Legislative Council resumes tomorrow, Liang Junyan needs to make a decision according to the rules of procedure when to resume the meeting. Before revising the "Rules of Procedure", the President of the Legislative Council met with the media to explain the situation in accordance with established practice. The formed faction was led by the "squad leader" and "deputy squad leader" to meet reporters, condemned the pan-population manufacturing meeting, and pan-min met with reporters to refute the establishment However, after revising the rules and regulations, this situation is gone.

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Source: hk1

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