I agree that the filibustering in the legislative council harm the

interests of Hong Kong citizens because the government just spends a lot in
having filibustering, filibustering wastes a lot of time and filibustering does
not have a favorable result.

Firstly, filibustering harm the interests of Hong Kong because the public fund
is being used on filibustering in the legislative council. With reference to
source C, the filibustering has used 12 million dollars of public funds which is
quite a large sum amount of money from the public. The government can
use these funds on somewhere else for example, projects or ways to help
improve the Hong Kong society. This leads to dissatisfaction from Hong Kong
public as their taxes just goes to filibustering which is a kind of waste.

Secondly, filibustering harm the interests of Hong Kong because filibustering

is a way of delaying the passing of bills which most of the legislators tend not
to listen because the representatives of doing the filibustering consumes a
lot of time but just having repetition of the same point. With reference to
source C, the filibustering has used 54 hours of debate in the second and
third readings which shows that filibustering consumes a lot of time. Instead
of spending time to discuss other important bills, the time is wasted on the
filibustering. The public complains about the filibustering as they are just
wasting weeks of precious time on filibustering. Thus, harms the interests of
the public.

Thirdly, filibustering harm the interest of Hong Kong because filibustering

does not always have a favorable results in which the bills always been
passed with most votes from pro-establishment side. With reference to
source A and B, the pro-establishment camp has more members in the
legislative council has more power in deciding its votes whether the bills has
to be passed or not due to the composition of Legislative Council. The pandemocrats has not such big power to persuade legislators to have such
amendments in which no matter with the presence of filibustering, the
outcome will still be the same. Thus, Hong Kong will doubt the filibusterings
benefits of having amended bills. Hence, harms Hong Kongs interests.

However, some may say that, filibustering does not harm Hong Kong
interests as they are considered valuable as filibustering discuss
controversial bills in details and also delays the passing of bills. With
reference to source D, checks and balances is one of the core values of Hong

Kong, ensuring respect for different opinions and protection of human rights
in the society. But, no matter the presences of filibustering, the effectiveness
and efficiency of filibustering is low because the government not only spend
so much on it but also does not have a favorable result. Even if it is
discussed the bills in details, but legislators will not consider as the
composition of legislative council has more pro-establishment camp
members which they have more voting power to pass the bills. Pandemocratic has no such power to have the bills withdraw.