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Who knew the GOP existed in Hong Kong?
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Hong Kong Leader: We Can't Let Poor People Dominate Elections!
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The chief executive of Hong Kong on Monday dismissed protesters' demand to allow the public to directly nominate candidates for the city's top post as unacceptable because it would allow poor people to dominate elections.
“If it’s entirely a numbers game and numeric representation, then obviously you’d be talking to the half of the people in Hong Kong who earn less than US$1,800 a month,” Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said in a joint interview with the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times.
“If it’s entirely a numbers game and numeric representation, then obviously you’d be talking to the half of the people in Hong Kong who earn less than US$1,800 a month,” Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said in a joint interview with the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times.