Hong Kong Election Shows Growing Support for Independence Push

A candidate charged over Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year riots won an unexpectedly high number of votes in a by-election, raising the possibility that parties seeking independence from China may influence results of citywide legislative elections later this year. Edward Leung Tin-kei, a leader of the so-called localist group, Hong Kong Indigenous, secured about 15 percent of the vote in the Legislative Council’s New Territories East district on Sunday.
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