Hong Kong elections: Carrie Lam voted leader amid claims of China meddling
by Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong from World news | The Guardian on (#2H3B8)
A pro-Beijing election committee elects its favoured candidate as pro-democracy MP Nathan Law dismisses the result as a 'nightmare'
China's preferred candidate has won the heavily restricted election for a new leader of Hong Kong in a contest that pitted popular appeal against lobbying by Beijing.
Carrie Lam, the former deputy to outgoing chief executive Leung Chun-ying, beat the former financial secretary John Tsang and former judge Woo Kwok-hing.
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