The Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion held a press conference on Friday (May 7) to announce a new public opinion survey, which shows that nearly 60% of the respondents oppose amending Hong Kong’s electoral system, while another 56% oppose legislating to ban public calls for others to cast blank votes, among other things.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China decided in late March to amend the Hong Kong Basic Law regarding the election system of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council to ensure that patriots will rule Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong government will legislate to prohibit public appeals to others not to vote, to cast blank votes or to cast abortive votes. This latest poll conducted from May 3 to 6 is in response to the decision of the Chinese National People’s Congress to amend the electoral system of Hong Kong.
This online poll successfully interviewed 7,000 people, and the results showed that 59% of the respondents opposed the government’s upcoming amendment to Hong Kong’s electoral system, 30% supported it, 7% said half-half, and 4% said they did not know and it was hard to tell.
In terms of political orientation, among the 6,268 self-proclaimed pro-democracy supporters, 96% opposed the government’s forthcoming changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system, while only 4% supported it; among the 732 self-proclaimed non-democracy supporters, 39% opposed the government’s forthcoming changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system, 44% supported it, while 11% said half-half and 6% said they did not know, hard to say.
In response to the government’s intention to legislate to prohibit anyone from publicly calling on others not to vote, to cast a blank vote or to cast an abortive vote, 56% of the respondents opposed, 34% supported, another 7% said half-half, while 3% said they did not know, hard to say.
In terms of political orientation, 91% of the 6,268 self-proclaimed pro-democracy supporters opposed the government’s plan to legislate to prohibit anyone from publicly calling on others not to vote, to cast a blank vote or to cast a spoiled vote, while only 4% supported, another 3% said half-half, and 2% said they did not know, hard to say.
Among the 732 self-proclaimed non-democratic supporters, 37% opposed the government’s intention to legislate to prohibit anyone from publicly calling on others not to vote, to cast blank or spoiled ballots, while only 51% supported, another 9% said half-half, and 3% said they did not know, hard to say.
Analysis: The poll results show that 96% of the pro-democracy supporters oppose the government’s upcoming revision of Hong Kong’s electoral system, reflecting that it is absolutely unacceptable for pro-democracy supporters to speak, while nearly 40% of the non-democracy supporters also oppose the revision of the electoral system, reflecting that the pro-establishment supporters are also divided on the revision of Hong Kong’s electoral system.
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