Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy

The Hong Kong Legislative Council members' oath-taking controversy was triggered by two members-elect of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), pro-independence Youngspiration legislators, Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching, elected in September 2016, had their oaths of office invalidated by the LegCo secretary-general Kenneth Chen at the inaugural meeting of the legislature on 12 October.

The two first claimed that "As a member of the Legislative Council, I shall pay earnest efforts in keeping guard over the interests of the Hong Kong nation," displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner, inserted their own words into the oaths and mispronounced "People’s Republic of China" as "people’s re-fucking of Chee-na". The controversy escalated when Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen unprecedentedly asked the court to disqualify the two legislators on 18 October, followed by the walkout staged by pro-Beijing camp legislators to force adjournment to block the pair from retaking their oaths on the following day.

On 7 November 2016, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) interpreted the Article 104 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong to "clarify" the provision of the legislators to swear allegiance to Hong Kong as part of China when they take office. As a consequence, the court disqualified the two legislators on 15 November.

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