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Legislative Changes

The top legislature adopted a package of legislative changes to improve Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)’s electoral system on March 30.

The amended Annex I and Annex II to the Basic Law of Hong Kong SAR were passed at a session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee with all 167 committee members in attendance unanimously voting for it.

Annex I concerns the method to select the SAR’s chief executive while Annex II is about the method for forming Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) and

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