Letters to the Editor, September 30, 2014
I refer to the letter by David Hall ("Three key questions for Occupy", September 28).
He asked if it was realistic to have public nomination, what the ideal nominating committee format was and when the pan-democrats would start to negotiate.
Firstly, the pan-democrats have tried to negotiate before. Many even tabled different forms of moderate reform without public nomination. But none has been accepted and all were banned by Beijing.
Besides, there are two aims of Occupy Central now, as the campaign's co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting has said. One is to force Beijing to abandon the harsh framework and have the political reform process start all over again.
It means that the nominating committee's composition should not be the topic of discussion right now.
Many people think that we should first pocket the political reform on offer and improve it later. But as Beijing has said, all improvements made should be based on this framework. In other words, there will only be minor changes after we accept the offer. But fine-tuning is surely not enough to make the election genuine.