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| Hong Kong lawmakers reject Beijing poll plan | |
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| Legislators in Hong Kong have rejected a Beijing-backed election reform proposal. | |
| Most of the pro-government lawmakers walked out of the Legislative Council as the bill looked to be defeated, reports said. | |
| Of the 37 lawmakers present, eight voted for the motion and 28 opposed. It needed at least 47 votes to pass. | |
| The reforms would have given China the right to vet candidates in the election of the territory's leader. | |
| The divisive plan sparked mass protests in Hong Kong with pro-democracy activists labelling it "fake democracy". | |
| "This motion has not gained a two-thirds majority vote," said Jasper Tsang, the president of the city's Legislative Council. "I announce that the motion has been vetoed." | |
| The package would have granted all Hong Kong citizens the right to vote for their chief executive for the first time in 2017 , but they would only be able to vote for candidates that had been vetted by a pro-Beijing committee. | |
| Thursday's vote means Hong Kong's next chief executive will be selected, as before, by a 1,200-member committee, that is currently stacked with Beijing loyalists. |