My Take | New Legco must produce substantive policies

Hong Kong’s citizens have, for the first time, voted in an election redesigned at the direction of the central government since the introduction of the national security law more than a year ago. Many Western governments and media have incessantly been trying to discredit the new system with an expanded franchise.

Much work needs to be done by the local government and the newly elected lawmakers to prove them wrong. It behoves them to show the new system works better than the old.

The issue of whether the electoral revamp met Western-style representative democracy is now moot. The old quasi-democratic system didn’t work and ended up with individuals and groups who were happier to discredit their own government and society and to work with foreign governments and agencies to disrupt or destroy their own country.

The subsequent behaviour of many who have gone overseas and openly become puppets of the Anglo-American governments have demonstrated clearly their hidden intentions and agendas all along. Democracy is a great system of government, but not to the point of committing suicide to protect the rights of traitors and puppets of foreign governments to destroy their own country.

Based on the recent reform, the city’s 70-seat legislature has been expanded to 90 with more sectors of society being represented than ever. Originally scheduled in September 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had forced the election delay. Undeniably, authorities also needed time to redesign and implement the new system.