Political situation
Written by: Di Ruimin Wu Zhuo'an Luo Jiaqing Lin Jian
2020-09-29 09:47
Last update date: 2020-09-29 12:04
The Hong Kong Democrats’ poll on whether the democrats will re-elect the Legislative Council has been completed. The democrats held a press conference today (29th) at 11:30 in the morning to announce the results. The relevant 15 pro-democracy members will announce their decision to stay on the same day. 01" will provide live broadcast.
Chung Tingyao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion, said that a total of 2,579 people were interviewed in the polls, of which 739 were supporters of 15 members who accepted the polls. Among them, 47.1% of those who supported 15 members to stay in office or opposed to resign. Opposing to stay or support resignation was 45.8 percentage points, and 7% of respondents answered "half and a half."
Democratic Party Chairman Hu Zhiwei said that polls show that the proportion of leaving or staying is only half, and the 15 members of the democratic camp need to make political judgments.
Hu Zhiwei said that since the threshold has not passed, the two are very close. He announced his political judgment: 15 people want to stick to the parliamentary front.
However, Chen Shuzhuang, a member of the Civic Party, announced that he would not renew his appointment for personal reasons and withdraw from the Civic Party.
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[11:56] Civic Party member Chen Shuzhuang wrote to the President of the Legislative Council this morning. For personal reasons, he will complete his four-year term tomorrow (30th) as scheduled and will not continue to serve as a member of the Legislative Council.
She said in fb that after the long interrogation of the nine sons of Occupy Central last year, and the sudden diagnosis of a brain tumor, the impact on her and her family was not small. Fortunately, the operation went smoothly and the recovery was good. Now she is in stable condition. I deeply appreciate that relatives and health are more important than everything else and must be cherished. Therefore, I have long planned to bid farewell to the political arena after completing the four-year term of this Legislative Council."
She pointed out that the Civic Party finally decided to extend the party’s current legislative council members for another year based on the results of the above-mentioned polls and the party’s stated intention to "stay". However, due to personal reasons, she failed to comply with the party’s decision and now announced her withdrawal from the Civic Party .
[11:55] Hu Zhiwei mentioned that the relevant decision is very difficult. The two evils are the lesser one. He hopes to do his best to maintain the parliamentary front, prevent and slow down the wicked law from advancing forward, and stick to the limited voice platform.
The Labor Party Zhang Chaoxiong said that the disagreement among supporters was the result of the government and Beijing canceling the Legislative Council elections. They believed that the incident was unconstitutional and illegal, and supporters were difficult to accept in principle.
He mentioned that from the perspective of responsibility and movement, he thinks he should stay, but he would rather go in terms of personal will. However, since the political decision is to stay, he must continue to resist.
He emphasized that disagreement does not mean division. The days to come will be very dangerous and difficult. He hopes that the people of Hong Kong will work together to resist tyranny in any front and position.
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Respondents claiming to be established more support leaving
[11:46] Zhong Tingyao said that out of the 2,579 samples, 18 samples need to be removed. Among them, 6 samples had contradictory answers during the calculation process after completing the survey. Therefore, 6 samples were judged to be unreliable. Zhong Tingyao In summary, the survey results are quite reliable and credible.
Zhong Tingyao emphasized that "the threshold is set, then the threshold is set." According to the result, Panmin will not pass the threshold.
He also pointed out that according to the results of the survey, many respondents who claimed to be proletarians wanted the Panmins to leave the parliament, and more respondents who claimed to be centrists also wanted the Panmins to leave the parliament.
The poll questionnaire consists of three questions, including asking how much they support or oppose the Democratic Party, the Civic Party, Mao Mengjing and Zhang Chaoxiong to stay for one year, and resign from parliament, and ask the respondent to confirm whether they are supporters of the above-mentioned members.
The 15 MPs who participated in the polls stated that they would obey the results.
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