Hong Kong leader welcomes China-proposed electoral reforms

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she "welcomes and supports" China exercising its constitutional power to reform the city's electoral system to ensure only Beijing loyalists are in control.China's legislative body, the National People's Congress, will pass a resolution this week to improve Hong Kong's electoral system which Hong Kong is incapable of doing on its own, the Beijing-backed chief executive told reporters.Lam insisted that there is an urgent need for electoral reform and said no public consultation will be held."What we are now seeing is a deficiency in the electoral syste…READ FULL ARTICLE