"recently"? That's how it was designed by Beijing. Every single Chief Exec since handover has been Beijing's choice, and the legislature balance has always bee

"recently"? That's how it was designed by Beijing. Every single Chief Exec since handover has been Beijing's choice, and the legislature balance has always been in Beijing's majority. That's because the proportion of votes to each trade and whether an industry gets a vote at all was decided in proportion of how Beijing sympathetic they were. There's more - Wikipedia has the full absurdity. That is how you create a show democracy, with show elections, and give the impression there is democracy to subvert.