Political situation
Written by: Wen Weiguang
2021-01-14 11:28
Last update date: 2021-01-14 11:30
Reuters recently quoted news reports that Beijing is considering radical changes to Hong Kong's political system, including the legislative council election system, to further combat the influence of democrats. It is expected that the general election of the Legislative Council in September this year will have the opportunity to be postponed again.
The Pakatan Harapan Legislative Council Member Leung Mei-fun stated on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millenniums" today (14) that he had not heard the news, and everyone has been discussing and studying the Legislative Council and the district board system.
She believes that the purpose of changing the system is to enable Hong Kong to have high-quality management and to improve society without chaos.
On the same program, Zheng Songtai, a member of the Legislative Council, said that he is not surprised to change the election system of the Legislative Council. He believes that the government and the central government are worried that elections will be held as scheduled this year, which will increase the chances of mobilizing the democrats and will even affect the election of the chief executive in 2022.
Liang Meifen said that he had not heard about the postponement of the election, but believed that the purpose of changing the system is to enable Hong Kong to have high-quality management and improve society without chaos.
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As for how to change the Legislative Council election system, Leung Mei-fen said that he has no specific ideas, but the most important thing is who Hong Kong needs to discuss politics and whether it can make society better.
She emphasized that we should not only focus on individual areas or people, but also examine the most fundamental issues as a whole, how they can work and work well.
Zheng Songtai estimates that the government may focus on the functional constituency elections.
For example, he pointed out that in the education sector, representatives of the industry are elected by one teacher, one person, one vote. In the future, a school may only have one vote.
In addition, he also estimated that the current direct elections in the five districts may be split into six to seven districts in the next term, emphasizing that the government's purpose is to greatly reduce the odds of winning for the democrats, preventing them from achieving the goal of 35+.
Zheng Songtai said that he is not surprised at changing the electoral system of the Legislative Council. I believe that the government and the central government are worried that elections will be held as scheduled this year, which will increase the chances of mobilization of the democrats, which will further affect the election of the chief executive in 2022.
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Develop a "red and yellow card" system Leung Mei Fen advocates reducing labor based on the date of suspension
The Legislative Council’s Committee on Rules of Procedure held a closed-door meeting recently. After the meeting, the chairman of the committee, Xie Weijun, said that the committee agreed in principle to introduce a system commonly known as "red and yellow cards" to formulate penalties for members' extremely unruly behavior.
Liang Meifen said that as early as 2008, the "red and yellow card" system was proposed. At that time, some members of the parliament "threw bananas", and the parliamentary culture began to plummet, and until 2012, there was even more rags, and the situation became even more exaggerated.
She believes that if members of the council are more aggressive, a "yellow card" should be issued, and if there is a physical collision, a "red card" should be issued. At the same time, she suggested that they should be fined proportionally to suspend their duties and deduct labor according to the date of suspension.
Cheng Songtai said that the direction of the changes in the relevant rules is unprecedented. He believes that members of the law will be sued by the criminal law in the past, but the current approach is to directly harm. The introduction of the "red and yellow card" system and restrictions on the remuneration of members are to lower the threshold of Article 49B of the Rules of Procedure. , Stressed that as long as it is not the establishment in their eyes, it will be suppressed.
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