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Rally celebrates defeat ofveteran councillorElizabeth Quat, highlightsher ‘fake’ degrees25 November 2015 11:28 • Kris Cheng • 3 min read

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Dozens of local residents and activists gathered outsideoutgoing district councillor Elizabeth Quat’s office on Tuesday night to“celebrate” her defeat in the latest district election.

Champagne bottles were opened, party poppers were set off andpeople sang a classic joyful Cantonese tune by pop singer Paula Tsui.

Residents who joined the rally were happy about Quat’s loss, saying“she rarely comes to the district to serve residents.”

Quat was beaten by Labour Party’s Yip Wing in the Chung Onconstituency in Ma On Shan. Yip was running for the first time, buthad been working in the constituency for more than two years.

Here's the champagne pic.twitter.com/hwzO8qeEjC

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Elizabeth Quat’s office put up a note thanking for support and saying that she will continue to serveresidents.

On Tuesday, DAB lawmaker Ip Kwok-him condemned people joininga rally to celebrate defeat of veteran councillor Chris “Tree Gun”Chung.

Organisers said that the comment made them create the event to“spread the happiness.”

Several dozens, I say? pic.twitter.com/rX2trMJHqC

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The rally also highlighted the alleged “fake” degrees of the DAB Partylawmaker. Quat claimed to have received three degrees from the nowdefunct “diploma mill” Greenwich University, Hawaii.

Greenwich University’s website its headquarters in the 1990s. Photo: Google Maps.

During the event, an egg was thrown down from the public estatebuilding in Ma On Shan. The egg hit one person on the chest.

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Organisers printed out several “fake” university graduation certificates for Elizabeth Quat.

Quat is also a lawmaker in the Legislative Council, to which she waselected in 2012.

Organisers and party joiners said they have only done “half of thejob”, and vowed to unseat her from LegCo in the election next year.They also want to unseat DAB lawmaker Gary Chan Hak-kan – whoalso ran in the New Territories East constituency.

"This time it's district council, next time it's LegCo!"

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Quat, a pro-Beijing veteran politician nicknamed “EQ”, first said onMonday that the loss was due to the effect of last year’s pro-democracy Occupy protests, and the changes to the formation of herconstituency made her unable to reach residents who were notassigned to the new area.

She later sent a message to her party colleagues on Tuesday that it wasactually because of the government building a new housing estate nearher constituency and residents did not agree with the plan, SingtaoDaily reported.

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"This time it's district council, next time it's LegCo!"pic.twitter.com/6QokGNDpR1

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Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in localpolitics. His work has been featured in Washington Post, PublicRadio International, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. He hasa BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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