Political situation
Written by: Zhai Ruimin
2020-07-20 19:12
Last update date: 2020-07-20 19:15The nomination period for the Legislative Council election began the day before (18th), and Ye Jianyuan, the vice chairman of the Education Association and the current member of the education sector, took the lead in signing up for re-election. Yang Zijun, a "booming teacher" and general education teacher who expressed his interest in the election earlier, revealed on social networking sites yesterday (19th) that he had contacted Dai Yaoting, who led the democratic primary election at the end of May, and won the education sector to join the primary election. Support, and contacted the Director-General of the Education Association to meet in early June, hoping that the Education Association can participate in the primary election.
Yang Zijun said that although Feng Weihua, the president of the Educational Association, agreed that more than one person from the democrats would show weakness in the organization, and the Educational Association has the ability to hold a primary election on its own, he frankly said that it would not be held due to resource issues and has not participated in coordination since then.
The Education Association retorted in a statement last night, saying that it was difficult to identify whether voters were voters in the sector based on time. It was enough to affect the fairness and reliability of the primary election. It criticized Yang Zijun, who was in charge of coordination at the time, for completely underestimating the functional constituency. The complexity of selection. The Educational Association also pointed out that it cannot accept the primaries held in a hurry without a specific plan, and it cannot accept the statement that the Educational Association is obliged to participate once someone proposes the primary election.
Ye Jianyuan, vice-chairman of the Education Association and current member, signed up the day before to compete for seats in the education sector. (Profile picture/Photo by Liao Yanxiong)
Education Association statement approved the content of public meeting Yang Zijun accused of defamation
Yesterday, Yang Zijun consulted netizens on Facebook about whether he should participate in the education sector, and received a lot of attention in coordination with the Education Association. Yang Zijun explained that he met with Feng Weihua, the president of the Education Association, and others in early June, citing that the other party’s guidance and collaboration is the largest trade union in the education sector. In fact, it has the ability to organize a primary election on its own, but it will not be held due to resource issues. Election forum organized by workers. Yang Zijun said to himself that he had done his best to coordinate and believed that if the Education Association had promised to participate in the primary election, the chances of winning were high, he did not need to consider participating in the election.
The Education Association issued a statement to respond in the evening, alleging that the content of the meeting mentioned by Yang Zijun should be kept confidential, but the other party unilaterally disclosed part of the content, and the Education Association must respond. Yang Zijun retorted that Feng Weihua himself stated that all parties could openly coordinate the failure of the facts, and the Education Association declared that it would later withdraw the relevant part.
In the evening of today (20th), Yang Zijun stated on Facebook that 17 hours after he asked the Education Association to retract the relevant remarks, the Education Association began to remove the "disputed part". The remarks that discredited my members and those who would like to participate in the election have appeared on the official page of the Education Association for 20 hours. I am extremely disappointed and reserve the right to prosecute."
At the Admiralty demonstration on June 12 last year, Yang Zijun, a teacher at Diocesan Girls’ College, was shot in his right eye and was shot in his right eye. He has only 2.5% of his vision left. (Data Picture/Photo by Huang Weimin)
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Education Association: Those who are interested can consider participating in the election directly
The statement also mentioned that after member surveys in early March, Ye Jianyuan received 80% of members’ support, so Ye Jianyuan was formally elected to stand for the Education Association in May; he also criticized Yang Zijun and others’ primaries for ignoring functional constituencies. The complexity of selection. Taking the health service sector as an example, the Education Association pointed out that the voting situation is not enthusiastic and may not accurately reflect the wishes of the voters. It is also worried that in order to meet the funding of the primary elections, it will significantly reduce the expenses of the formal elections and weaken the propaganda power, which is detrimental to the election.
The Educational Association pointed out that those who are interested in the election may consider participating in the election directly, and questioned why Yang Zijun would postpone the proposal until the end of May if he seriously requested the primary election. The statement also stated clearly, "It is impossible to accept a primary election that is held in a hurry without a specific plan, and it is also impossible to accept the statement that the Education Association is obligated to participate in the primary election once someone proposes." It expressed confidence in the education sector and let The voter makes a decision.
Those who have signed up for the education sector include Deng Fei, the vice chairman of the Federation of Education.
The Education Association's statement also mentioned that in the health service sector as an example, the voting situation is not enthusiastic and may not accurately reflect the wishes of voters. (Profile picture/Photo by Zheng Zifeng)
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