are now injail. many other pro democracy activists have been forced out of hong kong. others have simply been silenced. there s a fundamental lack of pluralism in your system today, isn t there? that s not true. well, you know, what s interesting about this election is that actually nobody was disqualified from running in this election, and there were candidates who represented the pan democrats side and in the 2019 district council election that was running in this previous election. and then, there was a candidate, who has even chanted hong kong independence slogan before and even she was qualified to run in this election. so i don t agree with your statement saying that there was no, like, diversity of candidate. in fact, of you look at.. you re not aware of the fact that the politicians i ve just named are all injail? you re not aware that joshua wong is injail? some are in jail because they broke the law. you re not aware that nathan law was forced out of the country?
could it be that the turnout, the very low turnout, was partly because the people of hong kong saw there was no variety of voices? there was no pluralism at all in the offer before them in the recent elections. look at the facts, you know, a whole host of lawmakers who were not, in any sense, radicalised firebrands, but were pro democracy politicians. they re now locked up. i could quote you claudia mo, tiffany yen, leung kwok hung all of these people are now injail. many other pro democracy activists have been forced out of hong kong. others have simply been silenced. there s a fundamental lack of pluralism in your system today, isn t there? that s not true. well, you know, what s interesting about this election is that actually nobody was disqualified from running in this election, and there were candidates who represented the pan democrats side and in the 2019 district council
they re now locked up. i could quote you claudia mo, tiffany yen, leung kwok hung all of these people are now injail. many other pro democracy activists have been forced out of hong kong. others have simply been silenced. there s a fundamental lack of pluralism in your system today, isn t there? that s not true. well, you know, what s interesting about this election is that actually nobody was disqualified from running in this election, and there were candidates who represented the pan democrats side and in the 2019 district council election that was running in this previous election. and then, there was a candidate, who has even chanted hong kong independence slogan before and even she was qualified to run in this election. so i don t agree with your statement saying that there was no, like, diversity of candidate. in fact, of you look at.. you re not aware of the fact that the politicians i ve just named are all injail? you re not aware that joshua wong is injail? some are in jail
of hong kong saw there was no variety of voices? there was no pluralism at all in the offer before them in the recent elections. look at the facts, you know, a whole host of lawmakers who were not, in any sense, radicalised firebrands, but were pro democracy politicians. they re now locked up. i could quote you claudia mo, tiffany yen, leung kwok hung all of these people are now injail. many other pro democracy activists have been forced out of hong kong. others have simply been silenced. there s a fundamental lack of pluralism in your system today, isn t there? that s not true. well, you know, what s interesting about this election is that actually nobody was disqualified from running in this election, and there were candidates who represented the pan democrats side and in the 2019 district council election that was running