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		</div><p>Clashes broke out in Hong Kong’s legislature for a second time this month as a pro-Beijing politician was elected as chair of a key committee that scrutinises bills, ending a prolonged struggle for control with the pro-democracy camp.</p>
<p>The legislature’s House Committee, which vets bills and decides when to present them for a final vote, had been without a chairperson for more than six months.</p>
<p>The central government in Beijing criticised deputy chairperson and pro-democracy politician Dennis Kwok for deliberately delaying matters and causing a backlog of bills that affect public interest.</p>
<p>Mr Kwok was replaced Friday by Chan Kin-por, who was appointed by the legislature’s president to preside over Monday’s election.</p>
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<p>After scuffles and shouting matches, leading to Mr Chan ejecting most of the pro-democracy politicians, the election took place with pro-Beijing politician Starry Lee winning easily.</p>
<p>Her election will likely speed up the passing of a controversial bill that would criminalise abuse of the Chinese national anthem.</p>
<p>Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam said last week that passing the bill was a priority for the government, and the bill will be presented to the committee on May 27.</p>
<p>At Monday’s meeting, pro-democracy politicians held up placards that read Abuse Of Power and <i>“CCP tramples HK legislature,”</i> referring to the China’s ruling Communist Party.</p>
<p>Within minutes, at least five politicians were ejected for disorderly behaviour, with at least one lying injured on the ground as the meeting was briefly suspended.</p>
<p><i>“Hong Kong is marching towards the beginning of the end of ‘one country, two systems’,”</i> said pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo after the meeting ended.</p>
<p>The former British colony was returned to China in 1997 under a one country, two systems framework that gives Hong Kong its own legal system and greater rights than in the mainland.</p>
<p>Mo urged the Hong Kong people to vote out those who <i>“don’t care about Hong Kong’s future”</i> in the legislative elections in September.</p>
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<p>Pro-democracy lawmaker Tanya Chan accused security guards of Hong Kong’s legislature of “<i>losing their impartiality</i>”, after the security guards surrounded the bench where the chairperson was seated and prevented pro-democracy politicians from getting close.</p>
<p>Politicians clashed over the same issue on May 8, when Ms Lee occupied the chairperson’s seat more than an hour before the meeting was scheduled to start, saying that external legal counsel had advised that she had the power to preside over House Committee meetings.</p>
<p>Pro-democracy politicians accused her of abusing her power and staged a walkout, leaving Ms Lee and the pro-Beijing camp to clear several bills.</p>
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