In chaotic scenes, furious pro-democracy lawmakers twice forced Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam to stop delivering a speech laying out her policy objectives and then clamored for her to resign.
Pan-democratic legislators wearing masks of Chinese President Xi Jinping protest as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam attempts to give a policy speech at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.
When Lam started delivering the speech, she was shouted down by chanting pro-democracy lawmakers who held aloft placards showing her waving with hands colored blood-red. Describing the semi-autonomous Chinese territory as going through “major crisis,” Lam said: “People are asking: Will Hong Kong return to normal?”
Even before Lam delivered it, one of the protesting lawmakers, Claudia Mo, dismissed the address as a “shame and a sham” and said the chief executive had lost all authority.
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