Dai Qingcheng: Will the Hong Kong Fanmin still participate in the district selection?

After the Hong Kong Government revised the rules of the Legislative Council election two years ago, it announced last week that the district council reorganization plan based on the principle of "Patriot Governing Hong Kong" was announced to change the composition and election methods of the district council.Will the Democratic camp will participate in the new district council election at the end of this year, which has attracted much attention in the past few days.

District Council in Hong Kong is just a regional consultation organization, but because members are elected by citizens and one vote, they have a considerable public opinion foundation. After returning in 1997, they became another political appeal outside the Legislative Council.platform.Democratic factions have been dissatisfied with the government's governance by citizens, and they have won many times in the district council election. In 2019, nearly 90 % of the direct election seats in the district council were included.

Under the increasingly intense atmosphere of Sino -US relations, Beijing has put national security in the primary position in governing Hong Kong's work in the past three years. The district council has also become the key object of the official reform of the Hong Kong election system.The latest announcement of the district council reform plan has set up multiple customs to prevent democratic factions and grow again, including clearly stating that the future district council is by no means a political organization to prevent district council members from abusing power.

In order to implement the principle of "Patriot Governing Hong Kong", the Hong Kong Government also introduced the qualification review system for the first time this time to review whether candidates support the Basic Law and the SAR Government.Candidates must pass the qualification review to run.

At the same time, the official also required district councilors to accept the leadership of regional civil affairs commissioners. More than 80 % of the district councilors were generated by appointment and indirect elections.The government will also set up a performance supervision system to supervise the work of parliamentarians in the district and ban the seats of parliamentarians who do not meet the performance at any time.

A series of reforms have made the Democratic camp internal opinions on whether to run for the district council.Some pan -people believe that according to the new election system, there are only 88 direct election seats in the district council in the future, accounting for 20 % of 470 total seats.Under the single -seat single ticket system, even if the democratic school is sent to election, it can only get 44 seats at most. There is almost no influence in the district council, and the election is of little significance.

Moreover, in the past, district councilors were only responsible for small -scale regional work, but after the system reform, the area of the district councilor responsible for direct -elected district members will increase greatly.This is not a good thing for the Pan -Civil Affairs Troupe, which is increasingly scarce.

In fact, democracy may not be able to win even if they run.The reason is that since the launch of the new election system in Hong Kong, the voting willingness of democratic supporters has declined.The Legislative Council election the previous year, the democratic faction was overwhelmed.If the democratic school continues to participate in the direct election of the district parliament, a similar situation may appear.

It is worth noting that candidates who intend to run for the new district council election must be reviewed in the future and obtained the three sessions (the Regional Division Committee, the Regional Fire Commission, and the Regional Obstacles Council)Nomination is nine nominations.If there is no accident, the "three meetings" members in the future are likely to be appointed by people appointed by the government.Over the years, people in the establishment of the establishment faction have been competitors of democracy in the region.It may be difficult for the democratic faction to "look down" to these past opponents to "look down".

However, the purpose of most political parties is to win in the election.If the democracy completely abandons the district council election, it will only be reduced to political groups, and there is no influence in politics.Therefore, although the selection scheme in this area is worse than expected, the democracy has not yet said no.From this point of view, the probability of democratic parties at the end of the year is still high.

From another perspective, although the Hong Kong Council ’s district council reorganization plan has indeed brought great distress to the democratic school, do n’t be happy too early.After the reform, the district council is undoubtedly facilitated to the development and growth of the political delegation, but they must also hand over the answers that the citizens of Hong Kong are satisfied in terms of regional work.

For the Hong Kong Government, it is not necessarily a good thing to have the district council without the pan -people.After all, more than 60 % of public opinion support for the democratic camp.If the district council does not have a little sound, it will eventually affect the government's regional governance efficiency.

Let me give it a personal example.After the Hong Kong Western Kowloon High -speed Railway Station resumed its operations earlier this year, more and more people took high -speed rail to and from Hong Kong and mainland China.I used to take the high -speed rail back to Hong Kong twice on Friday night. Two times have waited at the Dushi Station at the high -speed rail station for a long time, and there was no David.

It took him nearly an hour to come to the arrival of Dushi.After I got on the car, I couldn't help but talk to the driver.The driver said that there was a problem with the design of the Dushi Station of the Hong Kong High -speed Railway Station, and it was usually difficult to attract Delta to take the initiative to drive in and carrying passengers.The busy time at night is difficult to find a car.

High -speed rail station is the first stop for many passengers to reach Hong Kong.If tourists want to wait for a long time at Dushi Station at the high -speed rail station, they will not have a good impression of Hong Kong.Strangely, there has been no political group to reflect this problem for so long.This small detail reflects the importance of the "five light and ten color" of the district council.

Of course, stability is the cornerstone of social development. After the formulation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Hong Kong society has indeed stabilized in the past two years.On the premise of ensuring that candidates are not anti -Chinese -China -Hong Kong elements, officials should encourage mild democratic schools to run district councils to ensure diversification of social voices and promote the level of governance in Hong Kong to continue to move forward.