Following his
successful request to the High Court to unseat two young Legislative Council
members on the grounds that they had not taken their oaths of office with due
sincerity, Hong Kong’s Secretary for justice Rimsky Yuen today announced that the
government is applying for a judicial review against Chief Executive CY Leung
on the same basis. Explaining the move, Yuen stated: “The CE has sworn
allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR, but his actions in office clearly demonstrate
that his true allegiance is to the Chinese Communist Party, heedless of the
interests of Hong Kong. This places him
in obvious breach of the NPCSC’s recent interpretation of the Basic Law,
requiring oaths to be taken sincerely.”
“Furthermore,” Yuen
continued: “Article 43 of the Basic Law states that the CE shall ‘represent
Hong Kong’. Having been elected by only
689 votes, and with his support ratings consistently running well below 50%, the
CE is also unable to fulfil this requirement.
Accordingly we shall be asking the Court to declare his office vacant.”
Yuen was at pains to
point out that this decision was made purely on legal grounds, with no
political considerations being taken into account.
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