Im fogel. Welcome to the program called prodemocracy. Lawmakers have resigned on mass after the territorys government removed 4 of their colleagues. The 15 resignations came after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the islands chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. Beijing has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law in hong kong. Opposition. Lawmakers say it spells the end of the territorys pfeifer democratic rights. That way, if they were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong, now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement. All i got that we got all the decision made by the National Peoples Congress Today is extremely ridiculous. It shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. Dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawma
Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff
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