{"id":12969,"date":"2018-11-12T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=12969"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:51:10","slug":"kowloon-west-by-election-buzzwords-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/kowloon-west-by-election-buzzwords-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Kowloon West By-election Buzzwords Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our terminology series, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Varsity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains a few of the buzzwords in the upcoming Legislative Council Kowloon West By-election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12970\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-1068x1068.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invalid-Nomination-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first one is \u201cinvalid nomination\u201d. Ousted lawmaker Lau Siu-lai\u2019s nomination was deemed invalid in the Kowloon West By-election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12971\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-1068x1068.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Vote-Splitting-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second buzzword is \u201cvote splitting\u201d. Veteran lawmaker Frederick Fung\u2019s decision to join the by-election raised fears of a split vote for the pro-democracy camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12972\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-1068x1068.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/plan-b-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third buzzword is \u201cPlan B\u201d. Lau Siu-lai\u2019s fellow Labour Party member Lee Cheuk-yan is regarded as a \u201cPlan B\u201d when she was barred from the by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our terminology series, Varsity explains a few of the buzzwords in the upcoming Legislative Council Kowloon West By-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1072],"tags":[1077,1074,1075,423],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislative-council-kowloon-west-by-election-2018","tag-buzzwords","tag-byelection","tag-kowloonwest","tag-legco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12975,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions\/12975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}