Hong Kong professionals urged to register to vote in their functional constituency as city’s top job hangs in balance
Accountancy lawmaker Kenneth Leung makes plea as many focus on ‘super seats’
Hong Kong’s professionals should register to vote in their sectors as soon as possible as their ballots will help decide who runs the city in the next five years, accountancy lawmaker Kenneth Leung said.
Leung was worried about a decrease or a slow increase in the number of voters in some professional sectors such as lawyers, accountants and social workers from 2012 to last year.
He believed the problem was partly caused by people switching their voter registration to the Legislative Council’s“super seats”, which were considered more important than traditional functional constituencies such as the professionals’ seats.
There are 30 traditional functional constituency seats in Legco for business elites and professionals, elected by about 230,000 voters. In contrast, the five “super seats” were elected by more than three million people who did not have a vote for any of the 30 functional seats.
“I hope those who switched their registration can consider switching back to their professional sectors before the voter registration period ends next Monday,” said Leung, adding there would be “intense competition in the functional constituencies in the September poll”.