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November 18, 2009 - The Hong Kong Special Administrative
Regiongovernment today published a consultation paper on the
methodsfor selecting the Chief Executive and for forming the
Legislative Council in 2012 with the aim of taking forward the pace of
democratic development.
Speaking to reporters, Chief Executive Donald Tsang reiterated the
government's determination to advance Hong Kong's democratic
development in 2012, thus paving the way for universal suffrage
elections for the Chief Executive in 2017 and the entire legislature
in 2020.
"Our job is to broaden the scope of political participation and
increase substantially the democratic elements in the 2012 elections
in accordance with the Basic Law [Hong Kong's constitutional document]
and the decision of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples'
Congress in December 2007," Mr. Tsang said.
Unveiling the consultation paper at the Legislative Council meeting
today, Chief Secretary for Administration Henry Tang said the2012
electoral arrangements should respond to community aspirations on
constitutional development, enhance the democratic elements of the
elections, and have the possibility of being accepted by the majority
of the public, lawmakers, the Chief Executive and the Central
Authorities.
Key directions
On the electoral method for selecting the Chief Executive in 2012, Mr.
Tang said consideration may be given to increasing the number of
Election Committee members from 800 to no more than 1,200.
Mr. Tang said the range of increase would meet the requirement of
gradual and orderlyprogress, provide more room for the community to
participate in the Chief Executive election and furtherenhance the
representativeness of the Election Committee. In addition,he added
that this would help transform the Election Committee into the
nominating committee when universal suffrage for the Chief Executive
is implemented in 2017.
Members of the Election Committee are returned from four different
sectors. Regarding the Election Committee's composition, consideration
may be given to increasing the number of membersof the four sectors by
the same proportion, such as adding 100 members for each sector.
For the fourth sector – Legislative Council, District Councils, Heung
Yee Kuk, Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress and Hong
Kong members of the National Committee of the ChinesePeople's
Political Consultative Conference – consideration may be given to
allocating most of the additional 100 seats to District Council
members to enhance the Election Committee's democratic elements.
District Council representatives
Regarding the representatives of District Councils in the Election
Committee, consideration may be given to having all such
representatives elected from among elected District Council members,
meaning appointed District Council members will not take part in the
election.
On the nominating arrangement for the Chief Executive, the current
nomination threshold is at the ratioof one eighth of the total
membership of the Election Committee. Mr. Tang said that the
arrangement allowed sufficient competition and ensured that candidates
had sufficient support. Hence, he said the government was of the view
that consideration may be given to maintaining this nomination
threshold.
Regarding the existing requirementthat the Chief Executive should not
have any political affiliation, consideration may be given to maintain
the status quo.
Legislative Council elections
On the electoral method for the Legislative Council for 2012, Mr. Tang
said the government was of the view that consideration may begiven to
increasing the number of Legislative Council seats from 60 to 70.
In accordance with the NPCSC decision, the half-and-half ratio between
Legislative Council members returned by functional constituencies and
members returned by geographical constituencies through direct
elections shall remain unchanged in 2012.
In other words, among the 10 additional seats, five will be allocated
to geographical constituencies and five will be allocated to
functional constituencies. Consideration may be given to having all
the five functional constituency seats and the existing District
Council functional constituency seat returned through election among
elected District Council members; i.e., appointed District Council
members will not take part in the election.
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