some of the violence that preceded this vote we're at the polling station in the constituency of jimmy shan he's a pro democracy activist who has been attacked twice in the build up to these district council elections most recently very severely injured so this is an election that has seen a number of candidates both pro step michelin and pro democracy coming under attack our correspondent some pill in hong kong reporting on pivotal local elections for us thanks very much. well romanian vote is a call saying that ballots in a 2nd round of presidential elections amid allegations of corruption now that is an issue that has sparked huge street protests in the country for his deciding between the incumbent president and a former prime minister whose government was recently ousted. proud romanian staunchly pro europe and a level headed champion of the rule of law. that's the carefully crafted image of romania's incumbent president klaus your highness he's been in office since 2014 and secured 40 percent of votes in the 1st round of the 29000 presidential election . i'm going to say but overall d

part to that office wasn't taken up now we were out one of the polling stations last night where jimmy shan the pro-democracy activist was elected he won the seat from the an incumbent we were watching as people watching that count unfold watching democracy in action huge cheers when his victory was announced among the people who would that in his victory speech he said that his win with all those people who have suffered so much over the last 6 months for the pro-democracy movement including all those that are up to more than $5000.00 people who've been arrested as part of these protests but surely what is the impact likely to be because i mean it is just a municipal election so ultimately how is that likely to affect hong kong's relations with mainland china. we have had a response from mainland china this morning the foreign minister has said in a statement that hong kong is part of china no matter what happens and he. anything that would affect the stability and prosperity of hong kong now as you say in reality district council is a don't have a huge amount of clout to this day usually