Three newly elected members of the Legislative Council had their oaths rejected today for adding their own comments as Hong Kong’s lawmakers were sworn in for a new term.
Sixtus “Baggio” Leung Chun-hang, Yau Wai-ching and Edward Yiu Chung-yim were each told by Legco secretary general Kenneth Chen that their oaths cannot be accepted.
One of the two youngest lawmakers to have been elected this year, Leung was questioned on why he donned a banner that read “Hong Kong is not China” while swearing in, while he pronounced the word “China” as “chee-na”. Meanwhile, Yau was said to have replaced the word “Republic” in “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China” to “re-fucking”, while also referring to China as “chee-na”. Yikes!
Yiu added the following phrase to his oath: “I will uphold procedural justice in Hong Kong, fight for genuine universal suffrage, and serve the city’s sustainable development,” reports the SCMP.
Leung and Yau, representing New Territories East and Kowloon East respectively, are both members of political group Youngspiration. The two later put their mis(?)pronunciations down to their “accents”.
Representing the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency, Yiu works as a scholar. When asked what he thought about what the secretary general said, Yiu responded, “What I wear is none of his business.”
For Yau, this isn’t the first time she’s in hot water for her words. Last week, she controversially said that young people in Hong Kong don’t have anywhere to “bang” — using a Cantonese slang term for sexual intercourse.
All three are expected to take their oaths again at a later date.
