(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) Hong Kong media reported that the new district council will adopt a "direct selection, inter -election, appointment" hybrid mode, of which direct election seats have been cut from more than 90 % to 20 %.
Comprehensive Sing Tao.com and Hong Kong 01 reports that the proportion of selection in the new district council is expected to be the largest, and the direct proportion of direct elections will fall to about 20 %, which means that future district council members are mainly generated by appointment and inter -selection.
In addition, those who are interested in participating in the District Council must be reviewed by qualifications to ensure that the participants meet the principle of "Patriot Governing Hong Kong".
Hong Kong media quoted sources that the final plan was announced as soon as the Executive Meeting on Tuesday (May 2) was announced.
The last district council election in Hong Kong was held during the anti -repair struggle in 2019.Of the 479 seats, 452 elected members of the elected election were directly elected, about 95%, and the remaining 27 were of course parliamentarians.Of course, members of the village committees of the 27th district of New Territories are also the chairman of the township committees.
Based on the current 479 seats, if the direct election ratio drops to 20 %, there will be only about 90 seats.
The Pan Democratic School won in the 2019 District Council election, and 388 seats were won by 452 seats, about 86%.However, the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law in 2020, and later revised laws, requiring district councilors to vowed to support the Basic Law, a large number of Pan -Min District Councilor resigned or was disqualified from district members.
