Majority of Occupy supporters say 'block roads to disrupt Hong Kong'
Reform movement announces plan to assemble team of legal experts to review all proposals
More than 80 per cent of students who participated in the second Occupy Central deliberation day yesterday said they supported using non-violent civil disobedience as a means to fight for true democracy, said organisers.
Some 724 students met at seven different universities in an attempt to build consensus within the movement on the upcoming electoral reform battle. Students were divided into small groups.
Just half of the groups showed support for having a committee for nominating candidates, as outlined in the Basic Law. And 25 per cent of the groups said such a committee should be done away with completely.
Some 77 per cent of groups supported public nomination, which would allow anyone to become a candidate if they receive the backing of a certain number of registered voters.
The Occupy movement also announced plans to invite experts on the city's mini-constitution to determine whether future political reform proposals met international standards of universal suffrage. That will happen ahead of the next deliberation day, before May next year.
Among those experts will be former HKU professor Yash Ghai.