Edward Yiu: Difference between revisions

|office1 = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]

|term_start1 = 1 October 2016

|alongside1 = <!--For two or more people serving in the same position from the same district. (e.g. United States Senators.)-->

|predecessor1 = [[Tony Tse]]

 

However, the [[Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy|oath-taking controversy]] sparked by two localist legislators [[Sixtus Leung]] and [[Yau Wai-ching]] of [[Youngspiration]] led to the unprecedented legal challenge from [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]] [[Leung Chun-ying]] and [[Secretary for Justice (Hong Kong)|Secretary for Justice]] [[Rimsky Yuen]] against . On 7 November 2016, the [[National People's Congress Standing Committee]] (NPCSC) interpreted of the Article 104 of the [[Basic Law of Hong Kong]], standardising the manners of the oath-taking when taking public office. As a result, the duo were disqualified by the court. Subsequently, the government launched a second legal action against Law and three other pro-democracy legislators, [[Lau Siu-lai]], [[Nathan Law]] and [[Leung Kwok-hung]], which resulted in their disqualifications from the Legislative Council on 14 July 2017.<ref name="ousted">{{cite news|url=http://time.com/4856181/hong-kong-lawmakers-oath-china-disqualified/|title=Four More Hong Kong Lawmakers Ousted In a Blow to Democratic Hopes|work=TIME|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>

 

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