Lee Wing-tat presses case for universal suffrage at opening of Basic Law Library
Democratic Party leader Lee Wing-tat put the case for universal suffrage in Hong Kong yesterday during his first meeting with a mainland official since being elected chairman last Sunday.
Mr Lee spent several minutes with the deputy secretary-general of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Qiao Xiaoyang, who was in Hong Kong to officiate at the opening ceremony of the Basic Law Library at City Hall.
The veteran lawmaker said he had expressed the wish of the Hong Kong people for democracy and universal suffrage in 2007 and 2008.
'I made use of this opportunity to express the views of Hong Kong people that a majority of Hong Kong people still support ... universal suffrage in 2007-2008. 'I repeated this message two times in the informal gathering,' Mr Lee said.
He said in response, Mr Qiao pointed to Chief Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen - who chairs the taskforce on constitutional reform and was standing beside the pair - and asked Mr Lee to speak to him.
But Mr Lee said that before Mr Qiao left he 'told me he had got his message' and said he would pass it to the central government.
