Political situation
Written by: Wu Zhuoan
2021-04-07 17:21
Last update date: 2021-04-07 18:01
Beijing took the initiative to reform the Hong Kong election system. Among them, the Election Committee was reshuffled. All district councilors and election committees were deleted and replaced by the Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories "District Committees" and the District Anti-crime and Fire Prevention Committees. The total number of seats was 156. Establishment.
Liu Yongwei, the deputy chairman of the Tai Po District Council, who is a democratic faction, posted a post on his social network today (7th), referring to the Tai Po and North Districts, which had no area committees in the past due to historical reasons. The IACM suddenly announced the names of the area committee members of the two districts. .
Looking up the list, of the 37 district committee members in Tai Po, 12 were losers in the 2019 district council election, and 5 of them were former district members.
As for the North District District Committee, five of them were elected as the defeated members of the district and four of them were district councillors.
Hu Jianmin renewed the lease of his office in Guangfu Village.
(Photo by Cai Zhengbang)
According to the list of area committees announced by the government, Tai Po is divided into two areas, "Tai Po South" and "Tai Po North". A total of 37 area committee members are appointed, and 12 of them are the losers of the district council elections, including the DAB Hu Jianmin, Ye Junjie, and Hu Chuoqian, Chen Zaoliang, Luo Xiaofeng, New Democrats Liu Wenjie, and Yu Zhirong of the New Press Alliance, among them, 5 were former district councillors.
As for the North District Committee, it is divided into "Longshan" and "Fengshui" districts. A total of 43 committee members were appointed, of which 5 were the losers of the district elections, including the DAB Zeng Xinglong, Yao Ming, Liao Xinghong, Pan Xiaowen and the Federation of Trade Unions. Huang Hongtao, in addition to Liao Xinghong, the other four are also former North District Councillors.
Liu Yongwei pointed out that due to historical reasons, Tai Po and North District did not have area committees in the past, but a list of "Tai Po Area Committee members" suddenly appeared recently.
(Information Picture/Photographed by Liao Junsheng)
Liu Yongwei: There was no district committee in the past for historical reasons
Liu Yongwei pointed out that due to historical reasons, Tai Po and North District did not have area committees in the past. However, a list of "Tai Po Area Committee members" suddenly appeared recently. He criticized the government for inviting a group of district election failures to join the committee for the purpose of raising the district board.
Liu Yongwei also denounced that the two district committees were only established in recent months, but they "wrote for 2020-2022", "Well, it's a new month, it's all 2021, 20 咩 20 ah, saving money." ".
In a post by Liu Yongwei, a former member of the Sha Tin Area Committee stated that he was working as a principal in Ma On Shan and joined the Sha Tin Area Committee. At that time, as a housing estate owners’ committee, he asked the Home Affairs Department why there was no area committee in Tai Po, but " Get some reasons that are not reasons."
In the district council elections last year, the democrats won more than 380 seats, including 19 seats in the Tai Po District, while the North District won more than half of the seats.
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