{"id":666,"date":"2020-07-31T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:06:00","slug":"hong-kong-delayed-elections-for-a-year-because-of-coronavirus-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/hong-kong-delayed-elections-for-a-year-because-of-coronavirus-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Delayed Elections for a Year because of Coronavirus Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hong Kong<\/a> delayed elections because HK recently had a second wave of viral infection and 121 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Friday. The government has claimed that it has postponed the elections due to the increased number of cases in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n However, the opposition is not quite happy and satisfied with the justification given by the government. The opposition has evidently blamed the government of manipulating the pandemic in their favor and that the government is trying to stop people from their fundamental right -voting.<\/p>\n On July 31, 2020, the HK Govt. has banned twelve pro-democratic contenders from running in elections.<\/p>\n In September\u2019s poll of Legislative Council (LegCo), the opposition leaders had expected a great number of votes. They were of the view that they could take advantage of public fury at Beijing\u2019s implementation of contentious security law in HK and hence most of the public would vote for them.<\/p>\n