Hong Kong Democracy Party support shows that population not ready to give up on suffrage rights

Alvin Yeung, a candidate from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Civic Party won a by-election held over the weekend, defeating the pro-establishment candidate, Holden Chow Ho-ding, and preserving the status quo between democratic and pro-Beijing forces in the Legislative Council. “I think this election reflected that the people wanted the pan-democrats, the Civic Party and the legislature to…