Good things come in small packages ... or do they? The recent constitutional reform package proposed by the government has, not surprisingly, been controversial.
While it cannot be denied that the government has made some attempts to improve the current political system, not nearly enough attention is being paid to areas that really make a difference. Take functional constituencies, for example.
Functional constituencies give a disproportionately large voting power to certain groups of people. Abolishing them is imperative in the interests of true democracy, but the government stubbornly refuses to take them out of the picture.
Universal suffrage is another pressing issue that the reformation package has failed to tackle head on.
Universal suffrage gives citizens equal right to vote for the head of state.
It is clearly stated in Article 45 of the Basic Law that Hong Kong's ultimate goal is to have universal suffrage, so why is it that more than 10 years since the handover, we still are not even close?