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Hong Kong has not been a true democracy for a long time. The elections are rigged by the use of "special interest seats" in parliament (I'm not sure if this is
by FredFS456 7y ago
Hong Kong has not been a true democracy for a long time. The elections are rigged by the use of "special interest seats" in parliament (I'm not sure if this is the official translation) which are overwhelmingly won by the party that is backed by mainland China.
- culturestate 7y agoHong Kong has never been a democracy. The British appointed governors and the CCP retains the de facto ability to do so as well (though as a local appeasement process they choose not to do this outright and instead allow public vote amongst an approved group of candidates.)