'Feasible' plan for 2017 poll coming soon, Silent Majority group says
Co-founder of anti-Occupy Central group says all sides will accept proposal, but offers no details
A campaign group opposed to the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement will release a "more feasible" proposal for electoral reform than those currently on the table, a key player in the group's foundation says.
Professor Francis Lui Ting-ming, an economist who was among the founders of the Silent Majority group, says its plan would represent the best option for "interpreting the major opinions" of society.
He expects the plan to be released before the end of this month.
"It will be more democratic, and acceptable to both pan-democrats and Beijing," said Lui, head of economics at the University of Science and Technology.
"But I cannot reveal further details now."
Pan-democratic groups want the public to be allowed to directly nominate candidates for the 2017 election for chief executive, due to be the first poll in the city run under universal suffrage.