Analysis︱The Li family announced the political platform 10 days before the election, and the political circles lacked specific concepts and it was difficult to monitor governance

The chief executive election is less than two weeks away, and the only candidate, Li Jiachao, has not yet released his platform.

Due to the extremely compressed time in this year's chief executive election, Li Jiachao's identity as the "true son of the heavens" will not be officially revealed until after the nomination begins. Under the "rush" of everything, the political platform is expected to be released as soon as Thursday (28th).

Some politicians have reported that under the current political environment, the election committee must support Li Jiachao, but at present he still does not know how Li Jiachao views social issues, and he has not been able to clearly interpret his political philosophy. As time digests, I expect the campaign team to work harder.

Platform announcement may be 10 days away from Election Day

If Li Jiachao announces his political platform this Thursday, that is, there are only 10 days left until the official election day, whether the society will have enough time to digest the content is worthy of attention.

Tan Yaozong, director of Li Jiachao's campaign office, has recently made "expectation management" in advance. He pointed out that the political platform will only be some general directions and may not be very detailed; Li Jiachao also pointed out that the political platform is limited in length, and will choose a few key points to introduce, even if there is no introduction, it will be taken seriously. place.

Looking through the information, in the past several times when the chief executive was elected, the time between the release of the political platform and the official election day were as follows: in 2002, Tung Chee-hwa published the political platform 77 days before he was automatically elected; in 2005, Donald Tsang resigned as Chief Secretary for Administration on May 25. , published a political platform titled "Attentive, Pragmatic, and For Hong Kong" on June 2, and was automatically elected on June 16, 14 days apart, the shortest one.

In the 2007 Chief Executive Election, Donald Tsang announced his bid for re-election on February 1. On the same day, he published a political platform titled "Co-creating a New Hong Kong and Creating a Better Environment". This includes submitting a green paper on political development and promoting political reform.

He was elected on March 25, 52 days before the platform was published.

In 2012, Leung Chun-ying published the full text of his political platform 19 days before the election, but in December of the previous year, he had launched a political platform consultation meeting with specific items, 98 days before the election day; The preliminary platform was announced on the 27th, and the full platform was announced on the 27th before the election.

Therefore, whether it is the "one-person model" in the past, or the two contested elections in the past, the days before Li Jiachao's announcement of his platform is the official election day (which is believed to be his election day) is much shorter.

Politicians' candidate platforms are their commitments to the public and an important indicator for the outside world to monitor their work progress. For example, in "Hong Kong 01" last June, it also assessed the commitments in the platform for the first four years of the current Chief Executive Carrie Lam's term of office. Which ones have been cashed, and which ones are "going".

Regarding the content of Li Jiachao's political platform, there have been news from different media recently. Among them, in terms of government governance, there will be a deputy secretary, more deputy directors and political assistants; in terms of housing, the current government tends to continue to promote the "Northern Metropolis". and the "Lantau Tomorrow" project to increase land supply.

New Thinking Chairman Di Zhiyuan recently criticized that Li Jiachao's campaign work lacked a comprehensive plan for governing Hong Kong and substantive policies.

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Di Zhiyuan: Society must know how candidates "interpret social problems"

Regarding this phenomenon, New Thinking Chairman Di Zhiyuan recently criticized that Li Jiachao's campaign work lacked a comprehensive plan for governing Hong Kong and substantive policies. "The most important thing is to look at a person's governance philosophy, and the most important thing is to see how he interprets social problems, but now there is no such thing. He said. "The result is the goal," how to do it?" He believes that Li Jiachao needs to prove to the public that he can do practical things, and he needs to release a complete political platform as soon as possible, turn it into a specific policy, and clarify the concept, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public. support.

Some electoral committees reported privately that Di Zhiyuan expressed a lot of doubts in the hearts of the electoral committees. From the recent answer from Li Jiachao in response to the media, and even the lack of a political platform, it seems that he is not sufficiently familiar with people's livelihood policies. When asked, he could only simply reiterate the three major directions, namely, solving different problems with results as the goal, and comprehensively enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness.

When it comes to the issue of housing and land, there is no specific content: "Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor at least mentioned 'property as the leading factor' and used the 'land debate' to build consensus. But at least 'know what you want', there is absolutely no trace at present, and it will be difficult to monitor in the future."

Li Jiachao.

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Cai Ziqiang: It is more difficult to promote the progress of the political platform without an opponent

Cai Tsz-keung, a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Administration at CUHK, pointed out that the strength of the candidate's political platform and future government policy monitoring mainly depends on two aspects. Be flexible and avoid making too specific commitments. When your opponent's platform is detailed and your own is more general, or the platform is launched too late, you may lose support. But now that Li Jiachao has no rivals, he may not have enough power to drive him to improve the platform.

The second is the strength of the opposition. He pointed out that the current system is basically the establishment, and the opposition is not a climate, and may not have enough power to spur candidates to progress.

Cai Ziqiang said that with the current electoral culture, he believes that the central government has deliberately increased its support for Li Jiachao to complete the first chief executive election under the "improved electoral system". Therefore, even if the electoral committee has doubts about Li Jiachao, he may not have enough understanding of his political platform and philosophy, but he should support him. other side.

People close to the team: do not want to write a "blank check"

However, some people close to Li Jiachao's team refuted that Li Jiachao's time for running for election was hurried, unlike Leung Chun-ying and Carrie Lam who "have a political platform and a team". Carrie Lam initially proposed that Articles 3 and 8 of the "Prevention of Bribery Ordinance" cover the Chief Executive and enact an archives law.

He hopes that the society will give Li Jiachao time. After being elected, Li needs to discuss the work goals with the new team. It is not appropriate to set too many targets at this time.

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