HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying said on Monday that he will “fully implement” a ruling by Beijing which effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from the city’s legislature after they deliberately misread their oaths of office.
An oath that did not conform to Hong Kong’s law “should be determined to be invalid, and cannot be retaken”, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing said in a rare interpretation of the city’s constitution.
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