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
let s say, a 2014 us midterm election, they have a 34% turnout rate. so our 30% is not really that much lower than that, considering the fact that our election, this past election, is the district level election whereas the midterm election, the senate race in the us, is a nationwide one which usually has a higher turnout. so 30%, by any stretch of the imagination, is not something that s, like, abnormally low. 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
let s say, a 2014 us midterm election, they have a 34% turnout rate. so our 30% is not really that much lower than that, considering the fact that our election, this past election, is the district level election whereas the midterm election, the senate race in the us, is a nationwide one which usually has a higher turnout. so 30%, by any stretch of the imagination, is not something that s, like, abnormally low. 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.
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