For Beijing to implement patriot rule in Hong Kong, it will need to modify the original electoral system with a view to retaining a democratic shell while maintaining strict control over political Life.
China’s central government intends to implement the principle that only patriots can play a political role in Hong Kong, a former British colony. Local media made public the details of the future electoral reform even before Beijing announced it to the public.
As our RFI correspondent Chen Fei reported from Hong Kong on Friday (March 5, 2021), even before Beijing had made public the details of the electoral reforms it plans to harden in Hong Kong, numerous reports were leaking out in the local media that what is being called the “five super DC seats,” or the five seats of the most democratic DC sector in the Legislative Council The total number of seats in the Legislative Council will be increased from the current 70 to 90. District Council members will no longer be eligible for the Chief Executive Election Committee, in response to the opposition’s landslide victory in the 2019 District Council elections.
The increase in the number of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Election Committee from 1,200 to 1,500 is aimed at diluting the already sparse voice of the pro-democracy camp. Forty-seven pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong remain in custody, charged with conspiracy to subvert state power for their role in the opposition primaries.
Hong Kong’s new Legislative Council election to be postponed again
In order to implement the above changes, the new Hong Kong Legislative Council election will be postponed for another year until September 2022, after being postponed until September 2021. In order to retain the shell of democracy while strictly controlling political life. In response to the 2019 demonstrations against the pro-Beijing local executive team, the National Security Law, which was forced by the Chinese National People’s Congress late last year, fundamentally ended political freedom.
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