Pan-democrats may run under a single team in their bid to win three 'super seats' in September's Legislative Council election.
But they failed to agree on their strategy yesterday. The Democratic Party has 'strong reservations' about the proposal. The party wants two teams to contest the five newly created seats in Legco's functional constituency for district councils.
They have been dubbed 'super seats' because some three million electors will be eligible to vote in the election to fill them, giving the winners a bigger mandate than other lawmakers.
Four pan-democratic parties have signalled interest in contesting the seats. The pan-democrats are expected to win two or three of them. They usually win 60 per cent of the vote in Legco elections when facing the pro-establishment camp, which plans to field three teams.
Leung Yiu-chung, a lawmaker for the Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre, said the single-ticket proposal would be less risky and could maximise co-operation within the pan-democratic camp.
But Sin Chung-kai, vice-chairman of the Democratic Party, said the proposal would probably fail, going on past experience, though the party was willing to continue talks.
Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong, convenor of Power for Democracy, said he believed the pan-democrats could end up with a strategy in which they field a maximum of three teams.