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Hong Kong's Potemkin Polls

Voters turn away dramatically from Beijing’s ‘patriotic’ candidates

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John Berthelsen
Dec 20, 2021
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Hong Kong’s 4.5 million eligible voters have shown what they thought of the legislative council election imposed on them by Beijing with at least 3 million of them staying home – a record 70 percent of voters spurning the “patriotic” candidates picked by the Communist Party.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam (above), asked in a press conference why so many memb…

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