Universal suffrage

maio23

Hong Kong has cut the number of directly-elected seats in its local district councils in the latest part of an effort to ensure only “patriots” are able to hold political office in the territory. Under the changes announced by Chief Executive John Lee, 80 percent of seats will be filled by people appointed by the government and all candidates will need to be vetted.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/3/hong-kong-reduces-directly-elected-seats-in-district-polls

jul20

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Monday that an unofficial city-wide election conducted by the pro-democracy camp over the weekend might have violated new national security laws by "subverting state power". Lam told reporters that if the democrats' aim to gain a legislative majority was to obstruct government policies, "then it may fall into the category of subverting the state power". She didn't elaborate.

One of the organisers of the election, Benny Tai, told reporters that the results of the poll had been leaked ahead of an official announcement. But he said there had been no personal data breach of the voters. https://wkzo.com/news/articles/2020/jul/13/hong-kong-leader-says-pro-democracy-protest-vote-might-have-violated-new-security-laws/1038909/?refer-section=national

uma da slutas mais consistenrtes na opimnia pubolica

convição emnraizaidas

não vai desapãrecer

mas vai ser ecolhida

eelições deste m~es tambem são um teste, ma snão defoinitivo

WKP

Since the election of Leung Chun-ying as Chief Executive in 2012, democratic development has come to a halt. The Umbrella Revolution was triggered by students disaffected by the continued stalling by Beijing, and particularly the pronouncement of the NPCSC on 31 August 2014 that said Hong Kong had to accept an electoral process for the Chief Executive in 2017 in which up to three candidates would be pre-approved by the Election Committee – an electoral college widely seen to be loyal to Beijing authorities.^[1][2] After the failure to achieve universal suffrage in 2007, the target of the pan-democrats shifted to 2012; the pro-Beijing camp stated its preference for 2017. The Pan-democrats were concerned over the lack of details regarding governance in Hong Kong after July 2047, when the One country, two systems 50-year guarantee of autonomy granted by the Basic Law expires.

On 29 December 2007, the NPCSC resolved:^[49]

that the election of the fifth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the year 2017 may be implemented by universal suffrage; that after the Chief Executive is selected by universal suffrage, the election of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region may be implemented by the method of...universal suffrage... Appropriate amendments conforming to the principle of gradual and orderly progress may be made to the specific method for selecting the fourth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the year 2012 and the specific method for forming the fifth term Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the year 2012 in accordance with the provisions of Articles 45 and 68, and those of Article 7 of Annex I and Article III of Annex II to the Basic Law

n 31 August 2014, the tenth session of the Standing Committee in the twelfth National People's Congress set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council election and 2017 Chief Executive election. While notionally allowing for universal suffrage, the decision imposes the standard that "the Chief Executive shall be a person who loves the country and loves Hong Kong," and stipulates "the method for selecting the Chief Executive by universal suffrage must provide corresponding institutional safeguards for this purpose". The decision states that for the 2017 Chief Executive election, a nominating committee, mirroring the present 1,200-member Election Committee be formed to nominate two to three candidates, each of whom must receive the support of more than half of the members of the nominating committee. After the popular election of one of the nominated candidates, the Chief Executive-elect "will have to be appointed by the Central People's Government." The process of forming the 2016 Legislative Council would be unchanged, but following the new process for the election of the Chief Executive, a new system to elect the Legislative Council via universal suffrage would be developed with the approval of Beijing.^[65]

The Standing Committee decision is set to be the basis for electoral reform crafted by the Legislative Council. Hundreds of suffragists gathered on the night of the Beijing announcement near the government offices to protest the decision.^[1][2] In an opinion poll carried out by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, only 36.1% of 802 people surveyed between 8–15 October accepted the NPCSC's decision but 55.6% were willing to accept it if the HKSAR Government democratised the nominating committee during the second phase of the public consultation period.^[66]

Student groups led a class boycott and protest outside Central Government Offices in late September of that year, triggering the 2014 Hong Kong Protests and Umbrella Movement.^[67][68]

Due to the rejection of 2014–15 Hong Kong electoral reform, Mainland Government officials, along with then Chief Executive CY Leung and current Chief Executive Carrie Lam have said that the development of democracy in Hong Kong is not a top priority and that the Hong Kong government should focus on livelihood issues first.^[69][70][71]

Candidates for election to the Legislative Council in 2016 were pre-scr

2019:

On 16 June, just one day after Lam suspended the bill, an even bigger protest took place to push for its complete withdrawal and in reaction to the perceived excessive use of force by the police on 12 June. As the protests progressed, citizens laid out five key demands, namely the withdrawal of the bill, an investigation into alleged police brutality and misconduct, the release of all the arrested, a retraction of the official characterisation of the protests as "riots", and the resignation of Carrie Lam as chief executive along with the introduction of universal suffrage in the territory.

Initially the protesters only demanded the withdrawal of the extradition bill. Following an escalation in the severity of policing tactics against demonstrators on 12 June 2019, the protesters' objective was to achieve the following five demands (under the slogan "Five demands, not one less"):^[60]

• Resignation of Carrie Lam and the implementation of universal suffrage for Legislative Council elections and for the election of the chief executive:^[65] The chief executive is selected in a small-circle election, and 30 of the 70 legislative council seats are filled by representatives of institutionalised interest groups, forming the majority of the so-called functional constituencies, most of which have few electors.

Reuters conducted polls in December 2019, March 2020 and June 2020. The last poll showed that the overall support for the protests and their demand declined. In March 40% strongly supported the protest movement surrounding the extradition bill in June that number declined to 34%. People who strongly opposed it increased from 21% in March to 28% in June. People who somewhat supported stayed stable at 17% and people somewhat opposed it stayed stable at 7%. People who wanted and independent commission of inquiry went down from 76% (March) to 66% (June). The same happened to the other five demands the support for universal suffrage went from 68% (March) to 61% (June)

2/6

Hong Kong recorded a surge of newly registered voters three months before the city's Legislative Council election in September. As of Monday, more than 400,000 new voters registered, bringing the total to 4.45 million, more than a half of the city’s population, according to data released by Hong Kong’s Electoral Affairs Commission. After deletions due to deaths, the net increase in voters was about 322,400 year-on-year. Among newly registered voters, the age range of 41-50 recorded the most significant increase of nearly 70,000 new registrations. Next was the 51-60 group with 57,000 new voters and the 18-30 range with 38,000. Permanent Hong Kong residents who are 18 or older are eligible to vote. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-06-03/hong-kong-voter-registration-surges-before-legislative-council-election-101562311.html

7/6

 O ativista Joshua Wong disse à Lusa que a lei da segurança nacional de Pequim "matará futuros movimentos democráticos" em Hong Kong, mas não vai parar os protestos no território, que assinala terça-feira um ano das grandes manifestações pró-democracia. "A nova Lei de Segurança Nacional em Hong Kong matará futuros movimentos democráticos, uma vez que todos os protestos e outros apelos à democracia na cidade serão classificados como tentativas de subversões da autoridade da China", afirmou à Lusa o ativista de 23 anos, uma das figuras mais mediáticas do movimento pró-democracia em Hong Kong. http://portocanal.sapo.pt/noticia/224256

12/7 (primaries)

Although the primary election was intended for selecting the strongest candidates to run in the official election, Beijing’s escalating crackdown may render the latter a mere sham, meaning the primaries will be the last, fair election in which Hongkongers can freely choose candidates to represent them. The hope is to seize more than half of the legislative council seats (called “the 35+ plan”), giving pro-democracy legislators veto power to pressure the Hong Kong government into answering the five demands of last year’s protests.

Hong Kong elections: 234,000 residents cast ballots in opposition camp primary for Legislative Council elections, organisers say

·         The number, which represents 5.3 per cent of registered voters, far exceeds overall target of 170,000 people

·         Primary held to whittle down candidates for the opposition camp’s Legco drive had been mired in uncertainty after government warning

·         Hong Kong’s traditional opposition parties made an “emergency appeal” to voters on Sunday amid fierce competition from localist challengers in a weekend primary that saw more than 610,000 residents cast ballots to determine tickets for September’s Legislative Council elections.

·         Long queues were already forming across the city – including in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, Sha Tin and Tai Po – before polling stations reopened on Sunday morning, a repeat of scenes 

Mood among the opposition was considerably boosted Monday, however, after organizers said some 600,000 votes were cast in the primary election. That's around 27% of the number of people who voted in the most recent legislative elections, and far above organizers' original target of 170,000.

"Hong Kong people have made history again," Benny Tai, one of the organizers, said after the polling ended on Sunday night. "Hong Kong people have demonstrated to the world, and also to the authorities, that we have not given up to strive for democracy

The city’s leaders, once picked by London and accountable only to Britain, are now to be chosen by the CCP, with a thin veneer of democratic responsibility to the people of Hong Kong. None of the city’s chief executives were politicians, none had experience in political parties, and none won a direct election. Hong Kong “never trained politicians before 1997; I don’t think that we actually train politicians now,” Bernard Chan, a businessman who served as a pro-Beijing lawmaker and is now a member of Lam’s cabinet, told me. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/carrie-lam-hong-kong-china-protest/612955/