China Focus
What kind of parliamentarians or factions are composed of the Hong Kong Legislative Council is a major issue in the development of the Hong Kong election system. It not only affects whether various functional departments in Hong Kong can run normally, provide the service functions that should be provided, and it is related to the political ecology of Hong Kong.It is related to the stability and economic development of Hong Kong and the future of Hong Kong.
After the anti -repair example, especially after the National Security Law of the Hong Kong area landed, the National Security Law was like a monster mirror, which further highlighted some shortcomings in the Hong Kong election system.
The first is the long -term coexistence of the list of voting system and the Chief Executive of the Chief Executive.According to the regulations of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the election system adopted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council's direct election seats is a proportion representative system, but it is different from the traditional proportion representative system. In fact, it is a list of voting system.Political parties or groups list the candidates they have launched on a list, and voters can only vote to a list instead of voting to a single candidate.In essence, this is a party or group kidnapper.
Although candidates generally represent the interests of political parties or groups, the concepts, value orientation, and style of each candidate are different. Therefore, the voters choose political parties or groups instead of truly representing them.In addition, Hong Kong's institutional design has always been administrative leadership. After 23 years after the return, the administrative and dominant system design has become increasingly invalid and disabled.
Although most of the members of the Legislative Council belong to the institutional faction, the establishment of the establishment faction is more of a political party that belongs to them, not the Hong Kong government; and the Chief Executive is non -political party, does not belong to any political party or group.The system design is easy to cause the Chief Executive to sing you. I sang me in the MPs of the Establishment School.This may be one of the main reasons for the return of Hong Kong for 23 years, with serious social differentiation and difficult government governance.
The second is the lack of election threshold.There are no threshold requirements for the direct election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, that is, there must be the most basic support for obtaining a seat. It can be said that this is a serious loophole.Without the requirements of the threshold, it is conducive to the small party to obtain a seat. It will promote the blowing development of the Hong Kong political parties or groups, and to establish political parties or groups at will from the system guarantee and stimulate political ambitions.
In the frequent social movement, especially after the anti -repair campaign, the setting of no threshold is combined with the list of voting systems to further encourage and stimulate the Hong Kong political parties or groups.After the National Security Law landed, this kind of no threshold will stimulate the generation of some radical political parties or groups.
Although with the guarantee of the National Security Law, it will not be too exaggerated on the bright side, but the basic characteristics of the Central Government and the SAR Government will not change, and even secretly covering the political party as a cover, and in some radical ways to promote the division of Hong Kong independence and other division and other divisionsActivities, worsening Hong Kong's political ecology, and breaking the social and economic development and stability of Hong Kong.
The third is the loopholes of the functional form.Functional elections are a very distinctive system in the Hong Kong election system, which played an important role in the development of the Hong Kong election system.However, some unreasonable factors should be seen in the uniform election.The conditions of the functional links and the division standards of the sectors are not very clear. Regardless of the size of all walks of life, there is only one representative (except for individual circles).The rationalization problem of functional sectors has become a large loophole in functional elections.
Therefore, some people have in -depth research on the composition details of the functional world, and use the legal gray areas to strive for more supporters to register as a functional group voters.On the other hand, the functional election authorization ticket system is also a big loophole, which is worthy of attention.
According to the guidance of the Hong Kong Election Affairs Office, the group only needs to send the election registration director at least 14 days ago by the voting date, fill in or replace or instead of the authorization representative notice, and can change the authorization representative.In this way, it is possible that fictional filling or replacement of authorization representatives may occur. Fiction can also be replaced by authorized representatives, which leads to the failure of the original voters of the relevant groups to fail to truly exercise the right to election.
Fourth, the responsibility of the selection and management committee is not in place.Election is a very serious thing. The responsibility of the Election Management Association is to ensure that the election is carried out in an open, fair and honest manner at any time.After the National Security Law in the Hong Kong area landed, the various democratic schools in Hong Kong were particularly painstakingly drilled, so that the number of tricks wanted to find the space and opportunities that could be available.At this time, the selection and management will play a more role and responsibility to ensure that the election is open, fair and honest.
However, from the recent matters related to elections, the attitude of the selection and management will be surprising.The Democratic School launched the primaries on July 12, and the selection and management association did not point out the first time that its primary behavior violated the Legislative Council Regulations.A few days later, the Selection Management Association issued a statement on the preliminary election of the democratic school, saying that Hong Kong did not care about the primary election mechanism. Any so -called primary election does not constitute a part of the legislature election or public election procedure, but it does not point out that its behavior violates the Legislative Council Regulations Regulations.EssenceThis statement does not seem pain and itch, no binding force, and it will not be deterrent to democracy.
In addition, Article 6 of the National Security Law of the Hong Kong District stipulates that Hong Kong residents shall sign documents in accordance with the law when running, confirming or vowed to support the Basic Law and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in China.The official attitude of the central or Hong Kong government has very clear about the official attitude of confirmation.
However, in a statement on July 16th, the selection and management meeting stated that the confirmation letter was not part of the nomination form.Candidates can voluntarily submit confirmation when submitting the nomination form. They did not recognize the new situation of the implementation of the national security law in the port area and deviated from their due duties.
The author is a researcher at the Hong Kong Tianda Research Institute
