The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday roundly rejected an appeal by non-establishment lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou against a decision by the legislature’s executive board which had prevented Sou from initiating a bill proposing that the chief executive election must have at least two candidates by amending the Chief Execution Election Law.
Yesterday’s plenary session, which was chaired by Legislative Assembly Vice President Chui Sai Cheong, was attended by 30 lawmakers. Four non-establishment lawmakers – Sou, Ng Kuok Cheong, Au Kam San and José Maria Pereira Coutinho – voted in favour of Sou’s appeal, while 26 legislators voted against it. Legislative Assembly President Ho Iat Seng was absent as he was attending the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing which ended yesterday.
The four-member executive board – the legislature’s top management body – consists of the legislature’s president, vice-president, first secretary (indirectly-elected lawmaker Kou Hoi In) and second secretary (indirectly-elected legislator Chan Hong).
Directly-elected lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou addresses yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle about his ill-fated amendment bill. Courtesy: TDM
