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Interview│Hu Zhiwei: The parliamentary front can be leveraged. The unity of the democratic parties is the real break.

2020-09-16T23:17:02.487Z


The Legislative Council is postponed for another year, and 15 members including the Democratic Party, the Civic Party, Zhang Chaoxiong, Mao Mengjing and Shao Jiazhen will decide whether to stay in office through polls. Among them, the Democratic Party has indicated that it is inclined to stay on the parliamentary front. It is believed that under the restrictions of the international front and the street front, it is even more necessary to continue the parliamentary front and exert "leverage". However, the chairman of the Democratic Party Hu Zhiwei also pointed out in an interview with "Hong Kong 01": It is believed that supporters, after fully understanding the rationale, assist in making the decision to leave or stay, which will help reduce the internal conflicts of the democrats in the long run. Regarding the protesters’ hope to become mainstream, they later demanded that the Legislative Council be withdrawn altogether in an effort to break the situation (breaking the current political dilemma). Hu Zhiwei emphasized that Panmin had already subscribed to the democratic primary elections and was striving to win the “35+” seats in the Legislative Council. But in the end, the failure to "break the game" was not because the traditional pan-democrats were obstructing it, but because the government suddenly postponed the election. He believes that the most important thing is that the democrats can accept "face tyranny in the same way" and concentrate their limited forces, believing that "this is a real break."


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Written by: Zhou Lixi

2020-09-17 07:00

Last update date: 2020-09-17 07:00

The Legislative Council is postponed for another year, and 15 members including the Democratic Party, the Civic Party, Zhang Chaoxiong, Mao Mengjing and Shao Jiazhen will decide whether to stay in office through polls.

Among them, the Democratic Party has indicated that it is inclined to stay on the parliamentary front. It is believed that under the restrictions of the international front and the street front, it is even more necessary to continue the parliamentary front and exert "leverage". However, the chairman of the Democratic Party Hu Zhiwei also pointed out in an interview with "Hong Kong 01": It is believed that supporters, after fully understanding the rationale, assist in making the decision to leave or stay, which will help reduce the internal conflicts of the democrats in the long run.

Regarding the protesters’ hope to become mainstream, they later demanded that the Legislative Council be withdrawn altogether in an effort to break the situation (breaking the current political dilemma). Hu Zhiwei emphasized that Panmin had already subscribed to the democratic primary elections and was striving to win the “35+” seats in the Legislative Council. But in the end, the failure to "break the game" was not because the traditional pan-democrats were obstructing it, but because the government suddenly postponed the election.

He believes that the most important thing is that the democrats can accept "face tyranny in the same way" and concentrate their limited forces, believing that "this is a real break."

Hu Zhiwei said that most of the pan-citizens believe that staying in the parliament has practical meaning, at least it can hold back the Great White Elephant Project.

He believes that parliamentary resistance is an important part of the three fronts. Street resistance, international fronts and parliamentary fronts each have complementary functions. "If the tools of the parliamentary front are abandoned for no reason, will it be good for the entire movement? Or will it further weaken our power?" Hu believes that the role of staying in parliament can leverage the other two fronts.

Former Hong Kong loyalist Luo Guancong once wrote that the public has become accustomed to taking risks to find the possibility of breaking the game. For example, they entered the Legislative Council last year and finally laid the foundation for their anti-amendment legislation.

To this day, the pan-democracy stays because of the lack of imagination for the abolition of the Legislative Council?

Hu Zhiwei pointed out that there will always be controversy about whether to stay or not. Many things are difficult to imagine, but there are also many things that can be imagined, that is, "the establishment and the SAR government have sharpened their swords, including preparations for the legislative council election. Hong Kong voters in the Bay Area voted and introduced "health codes".

He believes that if he stays in the parliament in the next year, there will be more room for the community to respond.

"You said that if we withdraw from the parliament, it will play a big role. It will shake the international front and get the support of the international community... I can only say that this is a matter of judgment. You can make this judgment, and we can have different judgments. However, no matter what judgment is made at this stage, everyone can see that the current international community has focused on the South China Sea, Taiwan, and China and the United States in dealing with the position of the CCP. Hong Kong is doing a lot at this moment. , Will it fundamentally affect (Beijing’s) existing behavior? Can we afford the sequelae resulting from the abandonment?" Hu Zhiwei believes that all parties will consider the above conditions, and the current international and street fronts are restricted by objective conditions, so We should be more cautious and let Hong Kong continue to preserve its value in the Sino-US struggle.

Whether the "general speech" led to a serious crisis between the traditional pan-pop and young locals and the protesters, the differences between the two sides failed to narrow.

(Data Picture/Photo by Li Zetong)

Hope that the local conflicts among the pan-people will be minimized by polls, "recognizing that the government is the opponent"

Hu Zhiwei admitted that there are contradictions between the traditional democrats and the protesters, but there has been no way to resolve them. Polls are one of the ways to resolve the contradictions. In the past, each person said his own words and there was no mechanism for adjudication. .

Hu believes that the current priority is to call on the democrats to "recognize that the CCP, the Hong Kong government, and the establishment are their opponents." Otherwise, with loose political power, facing the resource-rich police system, they will naturally be at a disadvantage, and then make orders. The masses of the pro-democracy movement feel powerless and leave the active resistance force.

Regarding the protesters’ hope to "break the situation" (breaking the current predicament), Hu Zhiwei pointed out that the protesters had considered the road to parliament, hoping to force the government to face public opinion, while the traditional pan-democrats also accepted the democratic primary election and were willing to comply with the result. "In the end, it was not us (the pan-democrats) that caused the inability to break the situation, but the government not holding elections." He pointed out that the traditional democrats have an important overall view of the event. Even if there are differences in opinions, they still obey. On the overall question of how to "face tyranny", the most important thing is that everyone "accepts a set of ways to face tyranny" and concentrates limited forces on facing the current situation.

He said: "This is the real break."

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Hu Zhiwei believes that many pro-democracy supporters are convinced of rational debate. They believe that the atmosphere of debate should be pushed into the masses so that the masses can grasp all the information, and through communication and exchanges, internal contradictions can be minimized, so that "they have the capital to fight against the division of the CCP Strategy".

He added that the pan-democrats and the protesters are politically united, but there are many differences in social policies, and the protesters sometimes even link people's livelihood issues as a situation in which "democrats must unite."

"I have reservations. Public policy discussions can have complete rationales for various discourses, but in terms of political goals, everyone should be highly focused." Hu Zhiwei believes that there are two points that can seek consensus and focus on public policy: The government expands and expands its power; legally, if there is a risk that affects personal freedom, the democrats should also express it to the society.

He believes that these two points can become ways for the democrats to narrow their differences.

The traditional pan-people have been questioned by the protesters, and their devotion and change of course in the anti-revision movement are only for political gain.

Hu Zhiwei retorted that since the beginning of the amendment to the law, the Democratic Party had judged that the act would destroy the firewall between China and Hong Kong, which was like ruining one country, two systems. Therefore, they have been criticizing them. When the FDC demonstrated only more than 10,000 people, they also clearly expressed this belief. Never give up because there are few participants, nor change oneself because of public opinion.

"Any political organization, when there is a political incident that violates the foundation or bottom line of its beliefs, you will definitely be back. So throughout the sport, you will see that each of us is so engaged, otherwise we may see that we are not in formation."

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The Democratic Party’s basic beliefs listed on the website include support for Hong Kong’s return to China, support for the implementation of one country, two systems, a high degree of autonomy, and Hong Kong people’s democratic governance of Hong Kong after the return.

To this day, is "democratic return" still the core value of the Democratic Party?

Hu Zhiwei pointed out that the people of Hong Kong have always attached importance to the practice of one country, two systems and considered whether the Basic Law is in the interests of Hong Kong people. However, in the anti-amendment case, the Hong Kong government and the central government have not only failed to resolve the contradiction between the government and the citizens, they have also intensified, "conniving police violence The problem is that the introduction of legal opinions in the Mainland through the National Security Law and the selection of judges by the chief executive will destroy what everyone sees as one country, two systems."

Hu Zhiwei said that the Democratic Party and the people of Hong Kong are pursuing the same thing, "it is not like the situation in which full governance is fully implemented in Hong Kong today."

He explained that at the time of the reunification, Hong Kong people and the international community had imagined Beijing, "but the central government's treachery", such as the "0708 double universal suffrage" has long since fallen to the sea, causing distrust of the public, "Since the promise has not been fulfilled, who They will also oppose the SAR government, and whoever will cast a vote of distrust of the central government."

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