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Written by: Luo Jiaqing
2021-04-13 22:53
Last update date: 2021-04-13 22:53
The Legislative Council will first read the "Improvement of the Electoral System (Consolidated Amendment) Bill 2021" tomorrow (14). The content of the draft will be released today (13).
The Election Committee responsible for selecting the Chief Executive and 40 members of the Legislative Council has increased to 1,500 members. Many subsectors that were originally regarded as the "vote warehouses" of democrats in the elections of the Election Committee have undergone major changes.
The last democrats took all 30 seats from the education and higher education sectors. After the amendments to Annexes 1 and 2 of the Basic Law, the education sector and the higher education sector merged into 30 seats. 16 seats are ex officio members, and the remaining 14 seats are held by the UGC Higher education institutions funded by funding, or schools entirely maintained and managed by the government are voted on, which means that the Education Association cannot become an electorate group in this sector. Even if it can send people to stand for election, the chance of being elected is slim.
The Democrats also took 30 seats from the legal profession in the last term, but after the restructuring, 6 seats were ex officio members, and the other 9 seats were nominated by the Hong Kong directors of the Chinese Law Society. The remaining 30 organizations were elected through group votes, and many of them were formed organizations. , Which means that the influence of Panmin will be sharply reduced.
The last democrats took all 30 seats from the education sector and higher education sector. After the amendments to Annexes 1 and 2 of the Basic Law, the education sector and the higher education sector merged into 30 seats. 16 seats are ex officio members. The rest are funded by the UGC Educational institutions, or schools entirely maintained and managed by the government, are voted on.
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The two circles merged and the Education Association is out
Originally, there were 30 seats each in the education sector and higher education sector in the second sector of the Election Committee, and the democrats included all seats in the two sectors, but this situation will no longer be the case.
As there are only 30 seats left in the education sector after the restructuring, the provisions stipulate that 16 seats will be appointed by ex officio electors, including 11 university presidents, such as Hong Kong University Zhang Xiang, PolyU Teng Kam Kwong, and CUHK Duan Chongzhi will automatically become electors. The other 5 seats It will be held by representatives of five school sponsoring bodies that regularly receive government funding, including positions specified by Po Leung Kuk and positions specified by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.
The remaining 14 seats are voted by higher education institutions funded by the UGC, or schools entirely maintained and managed by the government, such as the Open University of Hong Kong, the Vocational Training Council, and the Examinations and Appraisal Bureau, which serve as the Educational Association of educational organizations. Will no longer be eligible to vote.
In the last session of the Democratic Action for Higher Education, 30 people were successfully elected as the election committees for the higher education sector. After referring to the results of the polls, they decided to vote for the former Financial Secretary Zeng Junhua as the new chief executive.
15 seats in the legal profession are elected by organizations
In addition to the education sector, the original one-person-one-vote legal sector has also undergone drastic changes.
The last term was also a democratic legal community. This term has 6 ex officio members. The Hong Kong Committee of the Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will serve as the Hong Kong Committee of the Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. Wait.
The other 9 seats will be nominated by the Hong Kong Council of the Chinese Law Society.
The remaining 15 seats will be elected by 30 organizations, including the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Bar Association, the Hong Kong Women's Lawyers Association Limited, the Hong Kong Basic Law Education Association, the Association of Small and Medium-sized Law Firms whose founding president is Chen Manqi, the representative of the National People’s Congress, and The Hong Kong Basic Law Research Center, where Hu Hanqing is the director of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The chairman of the foundation, Manguo, said that the purpose of changing the composition of the election committee this time is to ensure that the election committees are all patriotic and love Hong Kong, but he does not think that the pan-people will be excluded.
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The Hong Kong Law Exchange Foundation is also one of the newly added groups. The chairman of the foundation, Manguo, said in response to inquiries that the purpose of changing the composition of the election committee this time is to ensure that the election committees are all patriotic and love Hong Kong. Because the Bar Association is one of the electorate groups.
The State of Marx and Man believes that although some voter groups have strong political colors, many organizations, such as the Hong Kong Association of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong International Notary Public Association, do not have prominent political colors.
The State of Marx and Engels also stated that there is no requirement that only representatives of electoral groups can participate in the election committee. Any lawyer can fight for nomination. He said that his organization will depend on the ability and political color of the prospective candidate before deciding whether to support it or not, emphasizing that People must be patriotic and love Hong Kong.
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