Nearly 70 adults oppose overseas voting

Political situation

Written by: Zhai Ruimin

2020-10-27 18:00

Last update date: 2020-10-27 18:05

Recently, there has been news that the government intends to amend the "Elections Ordinance" so that Hong Kong residents living in the Mainland can vote locally, and submit it to the Legislative Council for deliberation next month as soon as possible, so that the Legislative Council election will be implemented next year.

The Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion today (27th) released the results of a poll on allowing Hong Kong people in the Mainland to vote. Among 1,020 respondents, 68% opposed and 18% supported.

Regarding Chief Executive Carrie Lam's earlier claim that Hong Kong people in the Mainland voted as a social aspiration, Chen Jialuo, associate professor of the Department of Politics and International Relations at HKBU questioned the other side's preference, "I don't know how big a society is."

Chen Jialuo also mentioned that there is no proper monitoring mechanism for voting in the Mainland, and the authorities cannot enforce the law across borders to ensure that there are transparent, fair and clean elections.

He believes that this is equivalent to widening the door, allowing different levels of election fraud to grow. He describes it as a bottomless pond. In the end, the election will only be reduced to a "grant" for those in power to find enough votes, which is no different from North Korea.

The poll was conducted from the 19th to the 22nd of this year. The result was that the majority of Hong Kong people voted against the Mainland. According to the political orientation, 94% of the respondents who favored the democrats expressed their opposition and only 3% supported them; supporters who favored the establishment 61% and 14% opposed; supporters and opponents who tend to be centrists accounted for 16% and 67% respectively.

In addition, Carrie Lam’s support level was 27.2 points, which was 1.4 points lower than half a month ago. The net support rate was negative 56 percentage points, down 3 percentage points.

The net public satisfaction rate with the overall performance of the SAR government dropped by 6 percentage points to minus 51.7%.

The government has no intention of pushing overseas voting, Chen Jialuo approves double standards

Chen Jialuo said that the pro-democracy and centrist sectors strongly oppose the possibility of voting in the Mainland. Coupled with the low government support, the hard push to vote in the Mainland will be a potential big bomb, detonating social conflicts and tears at any time.

He also warned that if the government insists on going its own way, it will ruin the rules and regulations established since the 1980s.

Regarding the establishment that the establishment has been fighting for overseas votes on the grounds of unfairness, Chen Jialuo believes that the government obviously does not want to implement it outside the Greater Bay Area, questioning the fairness of this, criticizing the authorities’ double standards and hypocrisy, and confirming the government’s goals to Hong Kong people It is to control the election results.

Zhong Tingyao, chief executive of the National Research Institute, pointed out that there is no voting system in the Mainland, and the introduction of Hong Kong culture is contrary to the concept of "one country, two systems." I believe that free information such as voting will bring great challenges to domestic life.

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