Passiveness or unclear Legco rules? All eyes on Hong Kong pro-Beijing bloc’s next move over gridlocked House Committee chair election

Since last October, the Legislative Council’s House Committee in Hong Kong has been reduced to a single-agenda panel. There is only one item on its line-up of 15 meetings from October 15: the election of the committee chairman and deputy for the 2019-20 session.But after meetings that dragged on for more than 26 hours, the committee, which scrutinises bills introduced into the council and decides when they are put to a final vote, has remained leaderless, resulting in a backlog of bills and…

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