Students to demand Tung resignation in march for universal suffrage
A student group will call for Tung Chee-hwa to resign during a rally tomorrow, the SAR's third anniversary.
The Hong Kong Federation of Students wants universal suffrage to select the Chief Executive and councils at all levels.
About 30 community groups and political parties, including the Democratic Party and The Frontier, will join the rally, which is due to start in Victoria Park at 2.30pm and end at government headquarters in Central.
The group criticised the Government for shifting responsibility to the public in a series of reforms over the past three years. It cited the user-pays policy, privatisation of services, reduction of welfare benefits and lump-sum grants to social welfare bodies.
The federation said in a statement the Government had shirked its responsibility in the name of 'efficiency and cost-effectiveness'. It also attacked the Government for siding with business to interfere in the stock and property markets.
'In the final analysis, it is because we do not have an accountable government. The Government only takes into account the interest of businessmen in its policy-making, ignoring the interest of the people,' the federation said.
A student spokesman said they had ignored calls from police to give seven days' notice of their rally as required under the Public Order Ordinance.
He said the federation had sent a registered letter to inform police of the demonstration.
