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"New Direction" Talks about Election Deployment: Legislative Council Election Committee Difficult to Break Through Direct Elections, Professionals

2023-01-10T12:07:27.694Z


"Hong Kong's New Direction", Legislative Council member Zhang Xinyu shared tea with the media today (10th) and shared his work plan for this year. In addition to Zhang Xinyu, Li Weilin, a member of the Kwun Tong District of the Civic Party who joined last year, and Li Weilin, who ran for the Legislative Council last year


"Hong Kong's New Direction", Legislative Council member Zhang Xinyu shared tea with the media today (10th) and shared his work plan for this year.

In addition to Zhang Xinyu, Li Weilin, a member of the Kwun Tong District of the Civic Party who joined last year, and Huang Weixin, who ran for the Legislative Council engineering field last year.

The three talked about the development strategy of "New Direction", including whether they will participate in the Legislative Council by-elections, district elections and association elections.


Zhang Xinyu pointed out with a smile that he believed that "New Direction" would not be able to break through the boundaries of the electoral committee's by-election, but he revealed the good news that "New Direction" sent members to participate in the previous village representative election, and two of them were successfully elected.


Hong Kong's new direction talks about elections and development direction.

From left, Li Weilin, Zhang Xinyu and Huang Weixin.

(Photo by Wen Rui)

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When asked whether "New Direction" would send staff to stand for the by-election of the electoral committee of the Legislative Council, Zhang Xinyu said bluntly: "The by-election of the electoral committee...is not easy for us to break through, so we hope instead It can be achieved in direct elections and in the professional field.”

The District Council is also a battleground. Zhang Xinyu pointed out that the latest rules are still unknown, and he hoped that the direct election mechanism could be retained. He said with a smile: "We don't have any people to do fire prevention and crime fighting. Is it really going to be a pool? Assuming office, I really don’t know.”

As for the former Kwun Tong District Councilor Li Weilin, will he run for the District Council again?

Li Weilin pointed out that he did not serve the public for the purpose of participating in the election, but Zhang Xinyu said that if there is a direct election, members with experience in serving the region will be encouraged to participate in the election.

Zhang Xinyu revealed that "New Direction" sent staff to participate in the recent village representative election, and the two were even more successful. Zhang Xinyu said with a smile: "Later set up the Shatoujiao group, and I will show you the next two village chiefs!"

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Source: hk1

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