{
  "id": 13682498,
  "title": "If Hongkongers’ support for Legco is waning, it isn’t just lawmakers’ fault",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/if-hongkongers-support-for-legco-is-waning-it-isnt-just-lawmakers-13682498",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-11T08:30:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3370301/if-hongkongers-support-legco-waning-it-isnt-just-lawmakers-fault"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, Hong Kong’s first post-handover Legislative Council president, recently dropped a political bomb. She revealed that one of her friends had been telling her that a legislature with 90 seats costs a lot more than one with 60 and that “I kind of agree with that”. The basic maths behind the statement cannot be refuted: 60 is two-thirds of 90. Even though Fan didn’t bring up the…",
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        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "If Hongkongers’ support for Legco is waning, it isn’t just lawmakers’ fault",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/if-hongkongers-support-for-legco-is-waning-it-isnt-just-lawmakers",
        "published": "2026-10-11T08:30:05.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}