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Hong Kong Democrats District Councillors Lose Their Seats After Refusing to Be “Allegiance to the Government” after Absent Oath-BBC News

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Many of the 479 members of the current district council have lost their membership or resigned due to different reasons, so only 211 incumbent members have taken the oath.

The Hong Kong government held an oath ceremony for the first group of local councillors on Friday (September 10). This is the first time that a local law amendment requires a councillor to take an oath.

The venue is not open to media interviews. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, pointed out earlier that district councillors will take the oath in front of the Chinese flag and the Hong Kong regional flag one by one and observe the relevant regulations of the oath ceremony and occasion. The authorities will then decide whether the oaths of these district councillors are valid. If the oaths are found to be invalid, they will be disqualified as councillors, but they will allow the other party to appeal.

The Hong Kong media also quoted some district councilors as saying that the invitation letter issued by the government earlier stated the oath procedures, clothing guidelines, and venue regulations, including clothing that the district councilors cannot display politicized signs, slogans or slogans.

Among the district councilors who need to take an oath on Friday, two district councilors Yang Xueying and Peng Zhuoqi were charged with “inciting subversion of state power” under Hong Kong’s National Security Act because of the democratic primary elections. They have been released on bail. On Friday morning, another district councilor, Cai Zhiqiang, publicly stated on the social networking site that he would not attend the oath ceremony, saying that he entered the district council to monitor the government, not to be loyal to the government, so he “must not compromise.”

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