HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s election chief has urged the public to vote in the legislative election on Dec 7 after some called for it to be postponed following the city’s deadliest fire in decades, RTHK has reported.

Appearing on the broadcaster on Dec 6, Mr David Lok, head of the Electoral Affairs Commission, said the date of Hong Kong’s election cannot be easily changed, and that it is important to avoid a “vacuum period” in the legislature.