A proposal that could end political polarisation
As debate rages on nominating chief executive candidates, a new proposal enters the mix
Political opinion on how to select candidates for Hong Kong's chief executive remains highly divided, some say polarised.
On June 22, Occupy Central will stage a mini-referendum to invite the public to choose among three preselected proposed methods. All of them embrace elements of citizens' nomination, which Beijing says violates the Basic Law by circumventing the Nominating Committee (NC).
If these three proposed methods are the only choices on the table, then Hong Kong will most likely not have a chief executive selected through universal suffrage in 2017.
Hong Kong’s deteriorating competitiveness is a reflection of a poor political governance
This would be disastrous, as the current electoral process no longer meets the aspirations of the people, having failed so far to offer the elected chief executives the legitimacy to govern effectively and to respond to the concerns of diverse stakeholders in Hong Kong.
Much is at stake. Hong Kong's competitiveness ranking has recently dropped. Surely this is a reflection of our deteriorating political governance.
It is crafted to meet the constitutional and legal requirements of the Basic Law, address the public's democratic aspirations, and yet pass the scrutiny of Beijing, the Legislative Council, and the administration (the "Five-step Process") necessary for universal suffrage to be adopted.
Our aim is to enhance the representativeness and acceptability of the central role of the NC in the chief executive selection process. The G-13 proposal retains the four sectors of the former chief executive Selection Committee as well as its method of selecting 1,200 members, but it calls for the addition of 1,200 new members.