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China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region concluded voting this Sunday for the eighth term of its Legislative Council. More than 4 million registered voters participated in the election, which will define the region's social and economic reforms for the next four years. Let's go to our correspondent in China, Bruno Falci, for the details. teleSUR

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00:00China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region concluded voting this Sunday for the eighth
00:06term of its Legislative Council. More than four million registered voters participated
00:10in the election, which will define the region's social and economic reform for the next four
00:16years. Let's go to our correspondent in China, Bruno Falsi, for the details.
00:21Greetings companions of Telesur and all the audience watching us in this transmission.
00:26I am in Beijing now, the capital of China, to report on the legislative election held
00:32this Sunday, December 8th, in Hong Kong. This process takes place within the framework
00:39of the Special Administrative Region, a status applicable to Hong Kong and Macau, created
00:48to ensure that these former European colonies maintain the fundamental principle of China
00:55of one country to system, preserving the whole legal economic systems and a high degree
01:03of autonomy within the People's Republic of China. Under the framework, more than four million
01:12registered citizens were able to participate in over 600 polling stations, demonstrating their
01:21commitment to civil rights and the stability of the system.
01:28Citizens' expectations for the 90 new members of the Legislative Council are focused on economic
01:37and social agenda, as well as the improving of people of public health. This new legislative
01:46will officially begin in four-year terms on January 1st, 2026. This following violent protest
01:58by separatist groups in 2019. Electoral reforms were passed in 2021, allowing only patriotic candidates,
02:09guaranteeing Hong Kong stability and development in the framework of one country to systems.
02:18With this news from here, from Beijing, we return with you in the studios of La Habana, Cuba.
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