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District Councillors swear on Friday that Hong Kong Island is "poorly populated" and only a maximum of 25 people will participate

2021-09-07T12:52:46.788Z


District members will be sworn in four groups starting from Friday (10th). The first group will be Hong Kong Island District Councillors. However, after the resignation of more than 200 Pan-Democratic District Councils, there are only 25 District Council members left on Hong Kong Island. 260 people have resigned after deducting


District members will be sworn in four groups starting from Friday (10th). The first group will be Hong Kong Island District Councillors. However, after the resignation of more than 200 Pan-Democratic District Councils, there are only 25 District Council members left on Hong Kong Island.


Excluding 260 people who have resigned and 8 people have been detained or have left Hong Kong, there are 211 members of the district council remaining, some of whom have stated that they will take the oath.


Only 3 District Councillors in Central and Western District and Wong Tai Sin

Hong Kong Island is divided into four regions. There are still 11 District Councillors in the Eastern District, 7 in Wan Chai, 4 in the Southern District, and 3 in the Central and Western District.

If all of them were present to take the oath, there would still be only 25 people participating.

Sima Wen, the vice chairman of the Southern District Council, revealed to the media that he would take the oath, but some people did not make a statement.

There are similar situations in other areas. For example, the Wong Tai Sin district, which was fully elected by pan-democrats, originally had 25 district councillors, but now there are only 3 people left.

Some members of the pan-democratic district publicly stated that they would take an oath.

Yuen Long District Councillor Cheung Sau-yin stated that he would take an oath, saying that doing his best to perform his public duties is a natural choice.

Only 3 District Councillors remain in the Central and Western District:

The commissioner for oath Xu Yingwei judges whether it is valid after the ceremony

However, even if the oath is completed, it must be officially deemed valid before it can remain in office.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that the commissioner for oaths, the Secretary for Home Affairs, Xu Yingwei, will not immediately announce whether it is valid or not, and will notify them as soon as possible after the ceremony. If the oath is deemed invalid, the district councillors can have the opportunity to make representations, and the commissioner for oaths will judge if necessary. Will seek legal advice from time to time.

The Chairman of the DAB, Li Huiqiong, also believes that it is necessary to look at whether the district councillors sincerely support the Basic Law and allegiance to the SAR. They must examine their past words and deeds to judge whether they are sincere. They should not only make decisions based on their performance at the moment of taking an oath.

Li Huiqiong said that the party will fully cooperate with the oath.

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