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In need of a strategy

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Now that the government's electoral reform package has been voted down, the democratic camp is asking what it should do next. Can we assume that similar discussions are occurring among pro-government politicians and within the administration of Donald Tsang Yam-kuen?

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After all, constitutional development continues to be a major issue for Hong Kong: citizens care about it and want their leaders to continue to take matters forward.

The democrats knew beforehand that they would defeat the package, but they apparently spent little time discussing their next move. The problem is that there seems to be nothing one could call a strategy.

Perhaps this is expecting too much from the democratic camp. After all, it is a diverse group of individuals and relatively small parties, and none of them has yet shown the kind of leadership that could guide the camp in following a defined strategy. So it can move only one slow step at a time.

The democrats are lucky that the pro-government side appears to be no better at seizing the moment.

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How would the democratic camp respond if, say, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) could provide a convincing way forward? They would be caught flat-footed.

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