No laws barring election losers from joining district committees, Hong Kong home affairs minister says
It would be “discriminatory” to bar candidates who lost in last year’s opposition-free District Council election from joining three neighbourhood committees, home and youth affairs minister Alice Mak has said, after more than a hundred such people were appointed by the government to the committees. Mak’s remark came after she appointed 2,999 members to three district-level committees – the Area Committees, the District Fight Crime Committees, and the District Fire Safety Committees – on Monday. The 470 District Council members, who were chosen last December in polls that saw a record-low turno...