Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the Hong Kong government will not regulate how individual voters vote, but the intention to incite or manipulate the election is necessary to regulate.
In Hong Kong, the Executive Council passed a bill to amend the electoral system on Tuesday (13), and will submit the bill for first and second readings at an extra session of the Legislative Council on Wednesday. In the Legislative Council election, the number of directly elected seats will be reduced from 35 to 20, and the number of constituencies will be changed from the current five to ten. It is believed that even if the pan-democrats can pass the vetting process, they can only get ten seats in the direct elections. (Fang Dehao reports)
This redistricting is not in accordance with the usual responsibility of the Election Committee and consultation, but by the Executive Council to amend the Electoral System Bill, and a day later that is sent to the Legislative Council for the first and second readings. According to the constituency delineation announced on Tuesday, the existing New Territories East and New Territories West are further divided into five constituencies, namely New Territories North (North District and Yuen Long Northwest), New Territories Northwest (Tuen Mun and Yuen Long Southeast), New Territories Northeast (Tai Po and Sha Tin West), New Territories Southeast (Sai Kung and Shatin East), and New Territories Southwest (Kwai Tsing and Tsuen Wan).
Kowloon will be divided into three constituencies, including Kowloon West (Yau Tsim Mong and Sham Shui Po); Kowloon Central (Kowloon City and Wong Tai Sin North West); and Kowloon East (Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin South East).
For Hong Kong Island constituencies, they include Hong Kong Island West (Central and Western, Southern and Lantau Island outlying islands); Hong Kong Island East (Eastern and Wanchai); each constituency has two seats, but voters can only vote for one candidate, and the two candidates with the most votes win in that constituency. Assuming that the ratio of pro-pan-democrats to pro-establishment voters in Hong Kong is maintained at 60/40, and assuming that there are pan-democrats in each district, the pan-democrats can only get 10 seats in the district direct election.
The 7th Legislative Council general election will be held on December 19 this year, with 90 members, 40 seats for the Election Committee, 30 seats for the functional constituencies and 20 seats for the geographical constituencies.
In addition, the Hong Kong government also set up a “Qualifications Committee”, the chairman and members appointed by the Chief Executive, in addition to the principal officials, the rest of the members “must be patriots”.
The authorities said that in response to the High Court Court of Appeal’s ruling on the judicial review of the Hong Kong Police Force Rank and File Association, the government proposed to require that only the media, political parties and validly nominated candidates registered in the Government Information Service’s press release system be allowed access to the voter register containing individual voter link information. The authorities explicitly stated that the measure was intended to prevent “undercovering” and said it would help achieve the goal of “protecting privacy”.
In the “Election Committee”, there will be 1500 seats, respectively, “ex-officio members”, “nominated by organizations” and “subsector voters The Election Committee will be elected by “ex-officio”, “nominated by organizations” and “subsector voters”. A number of professional subsectors, including the Engineering, Construction and Surveying, Medical and Health Services, and Social Welfare subsectors, will have half of the seats as “ex-officio” members.
Some subsectors have a certain percentage of “electors” nominated by “designated bodies,” including the Technology and Innovation, Accountancy, Legal, Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication, and Chinese Medicine subsectors. In addition, the “religious sector” and “mainland Hong Kong people’s groups” have 60 and 27 seats respectively, all of which are nominated by organizations.
In addition, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said before Tuesday’s meeting that the Hong Kong government will not regulate how individual voters vote, but the intention to incite or manipulate the election is necessary to regulate the behavior.
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