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Concurrent local exhibitions by Italy’s Uffizi and UK’s National Gallery rare treat for art lovers, but also underscores cultural ties with China despite tensions.
Councillors’ performance will affect people’s confidence in electoral system overhauled at the behest of the central government, observers say.
Participation rate hits record low 27.54 per cent, but pro-establishment heavyweights say they are confident the turnout will not disappoint Beijing.
Hong Kong's first district council poll after an electoral overhaul ordered by Beijing has yielded a turnout of 27.54 percent, a record low since the return to Chinese rule in 1997, despite officials, tycoons and political leaders mounting an unrelenting drive to get out the vote and a sudden extension of polling hours.
Hong Kong, Dec 11 (EFE).- The first district councilor elections in Hong Kong “only for patriots” had a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government reported Monday, an unprecedented figure for elections in which opposition candidates have been excluded. The former British colony last held district council elections in 2019, during the height of massive and …