Regina Ip cries, says she couldn’t sleep because she didn’t cast vote for electoral reform bill

As if the whole whoops-we-were-trying-to-stage-a-walk-out-because-someone-was-late-but-we-got-confused fiasco wasn’t embarrassing enough, Regina Ip started shedding tears of sadness today during a press conference because she was so upset she didn’t cast a vote in favour of the electoral reform bill.

“I was so sad I couldn’t cast a vote,” she lamented, according to Apple Daily.

“We had this one chance and I don’t know when we’ll have it again, so I’m really sad.”

“Last night I couldn’t fall asleep, then I woke up in the middle of the night,” Ip continued, choking back tears.

“We worked so hard for 20 months, I really wanted to cast that vote.”

 

 

政改方案被否決,新民黨主席葉劉淑儀表示昨日睡得很差,因為無法投票,越想越遺憾,睡到半夜時也「扎醒」,又表示辛苦了20個月也未能令政改通過,期間她激動落淚。#香港電台 #政改 #葉劉淑儀 #新民黨

Posted by 香港電台視像新聞 RTHK VNEWS on Thursday, June 18, 2015

 

Luckily for her, Beijing’s decided that the vote didn’t matter anyway, and that their decision on Aug. 31 last year still stands.

“The decision shall continue to serve as the constitutional ground for Hong Kong in the future as it enforces universal suffrage in the chief executive election, and its legal force is unquestionable,” said a National People’s Congress Standing Committee statement.

Photo: RTHK via Facebook screenshot
 

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