The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) (commonly known as the “two sessions”) will be held on Thursday and Friday this week, the Hong Kong deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC), Mr. Ip Kwok Him, who left for Beijing this morning, said that the two sessions have a high chance of adding an agenda to reform Hong Kong’s electoral system. The provision of the committee. However, the pro-China camp has recently announced that a screening mechanism has been set up for Legislative Council members, which has been described by the pro-democracy camp as the introduction of Iranian-style elections, while CUHK political scientist Tsai Tzu-keung believes that Beijing is testing the waters by setting up a screening mechanism for candidates, and the outcome is uncertain.
Beijing’s central authorities held a series of seminars in Shenzhen for two days from February 28, attended by Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Director Xia Baolong and other officials, to listen to the views of Hong Kong people’s representatives invited by Beijing on improving Hong Kong’s electoral system and implementing “patriots ruling Hong Kong”, with more than 10 people attending each session.
The first day of the meeting was attended by former NPC Standing Committee member Rita Fan, said after the meeting about the Chief Executive Election Committee and Legislative Council members should be patriots and love Hong Kong, suggesting the abolition of the seats of District Council members in the Special Selection Committee, and the Legislative Council election candidates should also be nominated by the Special Selection Committee.
After yesterday’s meeting, Legislative Councilor Priscilla Leung, who is also a member of the Basic Law Committee, said that the meeting reflected the establishment of a broadly representative “Qualifications Committee” to review the eligibility of candidates, reiterating that the eligibility of candidates should not be decided by the Returning Officer alone. She explained that in the past, some candidates signed the confirmation letter and were elected, and then acted like Hong Kong independence and self-determination, the best way is to conduct a qualification check at the beginning.
The Democratic Party’s chairman, Mr. Luo Jianxi, described the establishment of a “Qualifications Committee” for candidates as an Iranian-style screening of elections, reflecting the authorities’ distrust of Hong Kong civil servants as gatekeepers. He also said that the more the authorities introduce such measures, only the more distrust of Hong Kong people. And at a Time when many district councilors and former legislators who represent Hong Kong’s public opinion have been arrested and charged in Hong Kong and are unable to speak on behalf of the people, it is ironic that Beijing officials are in Shenzhen to listen to screened people talk about Hong Kong’s political system.
According to a clip from CCTV’s “News Feed,” the officials present included Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Luo Huining, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR, Zheng Yanxiong, director of the National Security Bureau in Hong Kong, and Niu Yibing, deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Network Security and Informatization. Invited speakers from various sectors of the Hong Kong community included Tam Wai-chu, Deputy Director of the Basic Law Committee, and Elsie Leung, former Deputy Director of the Committee; Tang Fei, Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Council of Education; and from the real estate sector, Wu Guangzheng, majority shareholder of Wharf, Wu Ying-sheung, Chairman of Hopewell, and Kwok Kei-fai, Executive Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties.
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