The closing ceremony of the 4th meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (NPC) was held in the afternoon of 11th, and the controversial “Draft Decision of the National People’s Congress on Improving the Electoral System of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” (the “Draft Decision on Improving the Electoral System of Hong Kong”) was passed by 2895 The draft decision was passed with 2,895 votes in favor, 0 votes against and 1 abstention.
The National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (NPC) closed its session this afternoon, voting on the “Draft Decision on Improving the Electoral System in Hong Kong”, which was passed by 2895 votes to 0, with 1 abstention.
Compare this with the 2020 decision on the Hong Kong National Security Law, which had 1 vote against and 6 abstentions, and the 2018 NPC decision on the draft constitutional amendment to remove the term limit for the President of the State, which had 2 votes against and 3 abstentions, but instead had not even 1 vote against.
According to Xinhua text live, today’s plenary session of the 4th session of the 13th National People’s Congress, 2953 delegates should be present, 2896 were present and 57 were absent.
A netizen tweeted, “Abstention means opposition.”
Some netizens also said, “The person who voted for that 1 abstention had some conscience …… although he didn’t dare to vote against it.”
It is impossible to know who abstained from voting.
It is believed that the Chinese Communist Party is revising Hong Kong’s electoral system to ensure that the so-called “patriots” as defined by the Communist Party are in the majority, or that its handpicked candidate for chief executive will not be overturned, and that it will continue to vet those it distrusts in the future.
Tseng Chien-yuan, chairman of the board of directors of the Taipei-based Institute for Chinese Democracy, told the Voice of America that any changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system should be made with the participation of all Hong Kong people, in accordance with the Hong Kong Basic Law and the principle that Hong Kong enjoys a “high degree of autonomy. The Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party’s National People’s Congress (NPC) have only consulted nearly 40 Hong Kong deputies and then changed the electoral system on behalf of nearly 7.5 million people in Hong Kong without permission, without even announcing the contents of the draft. “.
According to Tsang, the Chinese Communist Party’s transformation of Hong Kong’s electoral system may be resisted and humiliated by the people of Hong Kong. “The people of Hong Kong will replace the real free and secret (anonymous) voting with registered voting, and he will express his attitude towards the system directly, whether he is registered or not. Therefore, the election results will become meaningless. (It becomes) a small election in which only supporters of the Chinese Communist Party participate, but this is the real birdcage (democracy), which is certainly not democracy.”
He said that the Chinese Communist Party does not dare to have a fair, open and truly democratic election with the democrats in Hong Kong, which is a “sore loser mentality”, and that the electoral system in Hong Kong is already favorable to the pro-establishment camp. This is “institutional fraud”, or even “structural majority violence”.
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