Hong Kong is set to conduct elections for its Legislative Council on December 7, with not a single candidate representing the pro-democracy movement. The Chinese government’s efforts to portray the legislature, referred to as LegCo, as legitimate are evidently not convincing to most people.

Many residents of Hong Kong discreetly boycotted the 2021 election, leading to an unprecedented low voter turnout, as noted in a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report.

Five years into its extensive crackdown, Beijing has completely taken over the LegCo. It changed laws to guarantee that only loyalists of the Chinese Communist Party could participate, reduced the number of directly elected positions from 35 to 20 out of a total of 90, disqualified pro-democracy lawmakers who were elected, and jailed numerous

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