【Vacuum period】NPC to announce decision today; Sing Tao says all lawmakers to have terms extended by one year; Ip Kwok-him: Disappointed but must act according to the law
【真空期】人大今公布決定 星島：全體議員延任一年 葉國謙：失望但需按法律行事
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress is expected to announce today arrangements for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council during the coming one-year “vacuum period”. The draft resolution submitted for deliberation by Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, reportedly contains the wording “the Sixth Legislative Council to continue operating”. Sing Tao Daily reported on its front page today, citing sources, that the proposal would allow all Sixth-term Legislative Council members to extend their terms by one year. This would include four incumbent legislators who were disqualified from standing for election to the Legislative Council: the Civic Party’s Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu and Kwok Ka-ki, and accountancy-sector lawmaker Kenneth Leung.
全國人大常委會會議今日預料公布有關香港立法會未來一年「真空期」安排。國務院港澳辦主任夏寶龍日前提請人大審議的決議案，標題有「第六屆立法會繼續運作」的字眼，《星島日報》今日頭版引述消息報道，議案容許第六屆全體立法會議員延任一年，包括四名參選立法會被 DQ 的現任議員，即公民黨三名議員郭榮鏗、楊岳橋、郭家麒，以及會計界梁繼昌。