Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

nycbos

(6,033 posts)
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 03:11 PM Nov 2019

Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties sweeping aside pro-Beijing establishment in local elections...

Source: Washington Post

HONG KONG — Early results from Hong Kong district council elections on Sunday showed a surge of support for pro-democracy parties on Monday in what appeared to be a significant endorsement of the protest movement and an indictment of the pro-Beijing establishment seen by many as responsible for months of unrest in the city.

Voters took to the polls in record numbers to cast ballots in the only fully democratic election in the Chinese territory, an early sign they wanted to send a strong message to their government and to the Communist Party in Beijing.

Early results compiled by the South China Morning Post showed pro-democracy parties taking 108 of the first 120 seats to be declared, and pro-Beijing parties taking just 12. Several prominent figures in the protest movement won; several pro-establishment figures were unseated.

The turnout — more than 69 percent of the 4.13 million eligible voters had cast ballots an hour before polls closed — was significantly higher than the 1.4 million who voted in local elections in 2015. Voter registration was also a record high, driven in part by 390,000 first-time voters.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/record-turnout-in-hong-kong-election-seen-as-a-referendum-on-the-pro-democracy-protest-movement/2019/11/24/31804b00-0df5-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-world--alert-national&wpmk=1

4 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties sweeping aside pro-Beijing establishment in local elections... (Original Post) nycbos Nov 2019 OP
69% turnout. I hope I live long enough to see that here in the US. CaptainTruth Nov 2019 #1
Wait for it. China will nullify the elections, charge election fraud, and point their own people. Nitram Nov 2019 #2
Take note my fellow democratic voters. Magoo48 Nov 2019 #3
Stories like this make me wonder why we allow the MSM to destroy reputations of protesters here LiberalLovinLug Nov 2019 #4

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
4. Stories like this make me wonder why we allow the MSM to destroy reputations of protesters here
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 04:43 PM
Nov 2019

If we had had months and months of "lefties" protesting anything. Like what happened in the Occupy movement. The MSM always treats it like its a bunch of angry privileged punk kids. Complete with shots where they find the most extreme looking pink haired, nose ringed, young people in the crowd. The MSM never took the protests seriously, or ever had any meaningful debates on the issues they were concerned about.

You could even go back to the anti Iraq war protests. At the time, the NY protests were the largest crowds of any protest in US history. Yet they were largely ignored, or ridiculed. Or they had on Republicans and even pro war Democrats and ex-military guests on to ridicule them.

And now, Lord help you if you associate with anti-Fascists. The MSM is hard on the trail of the latest protesters that shall be ignored.......until some KKK minion accuses the AntiFa of breaking a window or surrounding and intimidating white supremacists. Then they will have a discussion of them. "IS ANTIFA A DANGEROUS ORGANIZATION?.OR ARE THEY A VERY REAL TERRORIST THREAT?...AND WHAT DOES ANTIFA EVEN MEAN ANYWAYS?"

That is one area that I have concerns about. How much control over the country that MSM news, not just Fox News, has on the country. Their one mission it seems, whenever their is a surge of protest against corruption, or unfairness, the MSM goes into annihilation mode, set to ignore and/or destroy the reputation of any and all subversive activity in the country as fringe left wing idiots.

If all that had happened in the US, by now the protesters reputations would be dirt. We'd not see much of the protests on TV anymore, and its leaders would be smeared beyond recognition by now as whakos by Fox, and at best good-intentioned but misguided youth by the other networks.

Latest Discussions»Latest Breaking News»Hong Kong's pro-democracy...