What surprised it was a little surprising is driven by the Hong Kong Government. The direct voting rate of local direct elections in the region this year was only 27.54%, which was 43 percentage points from 71.23%in 2019.Compared to 19 percentage points less.Even after the formulation faction has explained many explanations, the low voting rate is still indisputable.Why do Hong Kong people have a cold response to this year?
The central government implemented the "Patriot Governing Hong Kong" principle in Hong Kong in early 2021, and has been unknowingly two years.At the end of the year, the first election after the new election system was held in Hong Kong, which was unanimous by democratic political groups and supporters. As a result, the voting rate was only 30.2%. It wrote a new low since the Legislative Council's direct election in 1991.
The new district council election held after more than two years. Compared with two years ago, although no democrats participated in the competition, there were two objective factors that helped the vote rate rebound.
The first is the Legislative Council election before 2021. The total number of voters directly elected in the region is about 4.47 million. This year, there are 4.33 million voters, which is 140,000 less than two years ago.However, if the age group is subdivided, it can be found that the number of young voters and elderly voters is the same.The reason for the may be because the young people of the people do not agree with the new selection system, and they simply abandon voters' qualifications.On the other side, the elders have more elders who register as voters under the urging of the establishment.In short, this year's institutional voters have increased compared with the previous two years, and the difficulty in increasing the voting rate has become smaller.
The second is that the Hong Kong Government's senior management has called for the public in the past two months. In addition to making or posting or posting through electronic media and social platforms, some directors and departments have successively promoted to the region.Under the official publicity, Hong Kong people's awareness of this year's district selection has greatly improved, which facilitates the voting rate to break through the 30 % voting rate of the Legislative Council in the previous year.
It is worth noting that civil servants have not been the target of the Hong Kong Government's main votes in the past, but in recent months, the Hong Kong government has used almost all channels to continue to call for more than 100,000 civil servants to vote.Generally, various measures can promote a lot of civil servants to vote.
Especially the Hong Kong Government announced earlier that voters would receive a heart card after voting. Even if the official emphasizing that the heart card is purely expressing thanks, there are still some civil servants who are worried about it.vote.There are a total of 170,000 civil servants in Hong Kong. As long as the number of voters of civil servants increases, it will bring a lot of help to pushing the voting rate.
However, the voting rate announced on Monday still reached less than 30 %. It was surprising that it was a new low since Hong Kong's return since the return of 1997.Thinking about it, one reason may be caused by different selection.Under the new election system, the candidates for the district election this year are all in the system, and there are no democrats to join the competition. Most of the voters believe that there is no difference in voting, and there is no motivation to vote at all.
In addition, the Hong Kong economy has rebounded shortly after the customs clearance at the beginning of this year, and it continues to decline quickly after that.As the main indicators of the Hong Kong economy, the stock market and property market has been obviously sluggish recently. Many people have lost a lot of money, and they are naturally interested in the selection of this area.
Regardless of what, the Hong Kong Government and the Institute of Establishment have mobilized votes, and the publicity efforts can be described as before. The voting rate can still be less than 30 %, reflecting some deep issues of official administration from the side.
For a long time, Hong Kong's political spectrum has the so -called "June 4th" theory, that is, 60 % of the supporters of the pan -people are supporters, and the remaining 40 % are the supporters of the establishment.In 2019, the anti -repair campaign broke out in Hong Kong, the society was severely torn, and the camps on both sides came out. It encouraged supporters to vote for politics in the district of that year to promote the voting rate of the district.Thousands of votes.By two years ago, the Legislative Council election was deducted from the votes of the pan -people candidates.In other words, the establishment faction has roughly 1.2 million supporters.
The district selection held last Sunday was quite deserted. The voting rate was less than two eight, and only 1.19 million voters voted.Obviously, these people are the same batch of iron powder of the establishment faction.This just shows that Hong Kong's society has stabilized in the past few years, and the Hong Kong government has worked hard to govern, but it still cannot attract new supporters.Many former oppositions have continued to have a negative emotion on the new political structure of Hong Kong, and refused to vote in the district to say no.
More importantly, civil servants are a member of the government governance team and should have supported Hong Kong government governance.Although the outside world could not understand how many civil servants responded to the official appeal to vote.However, from the low rate of voting, the Hong Kong government is tirelessly called on civil servants to vote, and the effect is not ideal.There is no doubt that the Hong Kong Government has a police number in the future governance.
In the final analysis, the district councilor currently selected can only represent less than 30 % of the citizens and lack high recognition.It is necessary for the Hong Kong Government to be awake. In the future, when formulating regional policies, we must go deep into the community to listen to the opinions of different people and directly understand the voices of more than 70 % of the voting voters.
