Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers: Ambrose Lam is mounting his comeback after being ousted as Law Society president in 2014
- Ambrose Lam resigned as leader of the legal body after a no-confidence vote over his praise of the Communist Party
- After being elected to represent the legal sector under Beijing’s ‘patriots-only’ electoral overhaul, he says he stands by his past remarks
Former Law Society president Ambrose Lam San-keung was ousted as head of the solicitors’ body in a vote of no confidence in 2014, after he publicly praised the Chinese Communist Party as “great” in a radio interview that same year.
Now, seven years later, Lam is making a comeback as a lawmaker for the legal sector, following Beijing’s “patriots-only” overhaul of the city’s electoral system.
“I will stick to what I said. That’s right. I consider every Chinese owes the Communist Party,” he said in a recent interview with the Post, touting the advances that the country has made over the six decades since the founding of the People’s Republic.
The newly elected lawmaker also shrugged off questions about the legitimacy of his mandate amid low turnout, stressing that he would listen to the views of his sector, which historically has been dominated by pan-democratic barristers.
