Hong Kong's deeply unpopular leader vowed Monday to "listen humbly" to voters after the pro-democracy camp scored a crushing victory in community-level
elections that revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence.
In a rout that stunned the semi-autonomous territory, candidates seeking to loosen control by
China seized an overwhelming majority of the 452 elected seats in the city's 18 district councils, bodies that have historically been firmly in the grip of a Beijing-aligned establishment.
The result, the first vote to be held since
protests engulfed the city, was a humiliating rebuke to
Beijing and Chief Executive Carrie Lam.