Anson Chan and moderate lawmakers unite to seek views on 2017 poll process
Moderates unite to seek views on how to make process for 2017 poll more democratic
Former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang and five moderate pan-democratic lawmakers have joined forces to seek public views on how to make the nominating process for the chief executive election in 2017 more democratic.
But amid a deepening rift among the pan-democrats, the six also agreed there was no need to form a new alliance to promote moderate reform proposals.
This emerged from a meeting between Chan's group, Hong Kong 2020, and lawmakers Ronny Tong Ka-wah of the Civic Party, Charles Mok and Kenneth Leung of Professional Commons, Frederick Fung Kin-kee of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, and independent Dr Joseph Lee Kok-long.
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It came a week after the Occupy Central campaign endorsed three proposals for a citywide "referendum" next month that Chan's group said risked disenfranchising people who did not want confrontation with Beijing.
The five lawmakers at the meeting belong to the Alliance for True Democracy, which includes 26 of the 27 pan-democrat lawmakers and risks being torn apart by the row over the proposals.