I don't think 'legally' is a good term to describe what happened with Carrie Lam and the Hong Kong ruling local government. As a whole the West does not genera

I don't think 'legally' is a good term to describe what happened with Carrie Lam and the Hong Kong ruling local government. As a whole the West does not generally believe that tactics of barring opponents from running, criminalizing dissent, disappearances, soft violence and threats is a fair Democracy or election, if it even meets the definition at all. While perhaps technically 'legal' on paper, my point is that once the Law is coopted by one person (or CCP as an entity) with total control, the Law becomes the Emperors will and not a legitimate legal system by our norms.