Lee helped lead the crackdown on the city's pro-democracy protestors in 2019.
His win is seen as a sign of the Chinese government's tightening grip on Hong Kong, theLee was the only candidate in the election and won 1,416 votes in the election committee, while only only eight voted against him, perNearly all members of the committee are carefully vetted by the central government in Beijing, per AP. Lee will replace Hong Kong's current leader Carrie Lam on July 1.
Lee has already indicated that he will look to introduce more national security legislation — previous iterations of which have
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