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The Legislative Council will be on holiday from next Wednesday. The Finance Committee will be busy and everyone will go back to vote︱Politics

2022-12-16T13:42:49.535Z


The Legislative Council originally completed this year's annual meeting on Tuesday (20th) and then took a big holiday. However, today (16th) the Finance Committee meeting was "cracking".


The Legislative Council originally completed this year's annual session next Tuesday (20th), and then took a big holiday. However, today (16th) the meeting of the Finance Committee was "cracking". Working overtime for meetings will disrupt the work of parliamentarians during their holidays.


4 Members lined up at the end of the line Chen Kaixin, Guan Haoming, Li Huiqiong gave up speaking

The Finance Committee deliberated on a number of school project funding proposals today. The final topic was the funding of a primary school in Sham Shui Po. Deputy Director of the Education Bureau, Sze Chun-fai, led officials to attend.

Members took this opportunity to raise education-related issues and hoped that officials would pay attention.

The meeting was originally scheduled to end at 5:45 pm. Shi Junhui responded that it was 5:43 after Liang Ziying's speech from the Federation of Trade Unions. There was not enough time for the next MP to speak, but there were still 4 MPs queuing up, namely Chen Yingxin, Guan Hao Ming, DAB Guo Lingli and DAB Li Huiqiong.

Yi Zhiming, the vice-chairman presiding over the meeting, has indicated that there is not enough time to speak at the next meeting.

Since this is the last meeting of the year, this means that there will be an "additional meeting". Chen Kaixin, Guan Haoming and Li Huiqiong immediately gave up speaking, so that the motion can be voted on immediately.

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council failed to vote on an appropriation.

(File photo/Photo by Li Zetong)

Guo Lingli insists on not giving up and only joins the meeting on Wednesday

"Everyone, don't ask, I'm going to vote immediately." Yi Zhiming saw that the member gave up, and immediately said that he would enter the voting procedure.

However, at this time Guo Lingli stood up and raised her hand and said, "I have nothing to give up!" She proposed to vote first and wait for the next speech, but Yi Zhiming said that according to the procedure, this is not possible, "So we have to end today's meeting, we (next time) meeting) come back first and then deal with it.”

It is understood that many members of the election committee attended the election forum organized by the Hong Kong Restart Alliance in the afternoon. After the end, they rushed back to the Legislative Council to vote. The office notified that there would be an "overtime" meeting next Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon, when there was no meeting, in order to deal with Guo Lingli's speech and vote.

Many members of the Legislative Council have already arranged work during the Christmas and New Year holidays. If they join the meeting, the arrangement will be disrupted.

(File photo/Photo by Li Zetong)

Members have to relocate their jobs and even reschedule their air tickets because of this

Some councilors expressed their "sorry" to "Hong Kong 01", bluntly saying that councilors also have work arrangements during the holidays, and now they have to reschedule for this, and some councilors even plan to travel during the holidays, and may need to change their air tickets.

"These questions have nothing to do with the schools that need funding, and even their party chairman Li Huiqiong stood up and said, "I don't even ask." Zhong Cao is tight."

Some councilors also complained that the government put several school projects in the last meeting of the year, which seems to force councilors to approve them.

Members all hope to vote in person, but it is a bit embarrassing to return to the Legislative Council next Wednesday. They are "counting the number" to see if they can hold a meeting on Monday and Tuesday, but so far no results have been obtained.

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Source: hk1

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