Ousted pro-democracy lawmaker Lau Siu-lai filed an election petition today to try to overturn the results of the 2018 Legco by-election for the Kowloon West constituency, RTHK reports. An election official had barred Lau from running for the seat that she herself had vacated after she was disqualified in 2017 for improper oath-taking. The returning officer had ruled that she had not genuinely changed her previous stance advocating “democratic self-determination” for Hong Kong. But Lau’s lawyer, Senior Counsel Paul Shieh, told the High Court that the election ban was unreasonable, because she was denied any chance to explain her political views. He said the Democracy Groundwork politician could have very well repented and changed her stance after the oath-taking saga.

Source: The Standard May 07, 2020 08:03 UTC