Xu Zhifeng robbed the mobile phone and set up a meeting to investigate, saying that there are enough reasons to condemn if two thirds of the lawmakers passed DQ

Political situation

Written by Peng Zhuowei

2020-07-08 12:10

During the meeting of the Legislative Council's "Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High Speed ​​Rail (One Site, Two Inspections) Bill" committee in April 2018, Democratic Legislative Council Member Xu Zhifeng was suspected of stealing the mobile phone and documents of a female security bureau employee on the second floor of the Legislative Council And stayed in the men’s toilet for more than ten minutes. He was charged with three crimes, such as obstructing public officials from performing his duties, and was eventually sentenced to a 240-hour social service order.

The establishment faction also launched a sniping in the parliament and set up an investigation committee to investigate the incident. After more than a year of investigation, the report was published today (8th). The committee believes that the established facts mentioned in the condemnation motion are sufficient to condemn Xu Zhifeng.

After the committee completes its work, if a condemnation motion is passed by two-thirds of the members of the Legislative Council, the President of the Legislative Council may declare that Xu Zhifeng has lost the membership of the Legislative Council, but due to the end of the current session, permission is expected to escape.

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The Committee believes that the key parts of the allegations of the condemnation motion have been established, including: Xu Zhifeng’s behavior cannot be accepted even if the perpetrators are ordinary citizens; Xu Zhifeng does not respect public officials, acts violently and seriously violates the security bureau’s female staff. Privacy; Xu Zhifeng has negative public expectations of the Legislative Council.

The committee pointed out that the established behavior of Xu Zhifeng was a misconduct under Article 79, Article 7 of the Basic Law. According to the Committee, Xu Zhifeng’s behavior damaged the credibility of the Legislative Council, and his way of doing things may be negative. Members should generally have expectations of the code of conduct.

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Legislative Councilor Liang Jichang read out a "minority report" that condemned Mr. Xu Zhifeng during the Legislative Assembly, held that he could not fully agree with the conclusion of the investigation committee, and made three responses. First, the report believes that the committee should not submit a report to the Legislative Council before the appeal decision; secondly, the "minority report" proposes that it is difficult to prove whether the female employee has crying in response to the content of the report; furthermore, the report also fails to prove that the female employee Whether the mobile phone contains sensitive government information. Therefore, they failed to agree with the investigation committee's argument and conclusion of condemning the congressman.

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