HONG KONG: A veteran pro-democracy lawmaker has pledged to resign from Hong Kong’s legislature, triggering a by-election to allow residents to “vent their anger” at Chinese authorities over proposals on how the city chooses its next leader.
The issue was at the heart of months of mass protests in the former British colony, where pro-democracy protesters blocked off stretches of main roads to call for true universal suffrage.
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