Source: Ming Pao

Author: Li Hongbo

I believe that the election of the Hong Kong District Council's election will be greatly reduced. For members of the elected district, it will be a very difficult years, and it can even be said to be "a hundred and a hundred pounds", which will be greatly disadvantaged.

According to the government suggestions in the rumor, the number of members of the elected district will be less than one -third, plus the "double seat single ticket", if the number of seats remains unchanged, this will need to be merged with 6 to 7 constituencies as a large constituency into a large constituency into a large.In the constituency, the number of voters in various districts will be greatly increased from the original about 10,000 to nearly 100,000, and the service targets of members of the members will naturally be close to 100,000.This will expand the service scope of members of the elected district, which will seriously increase the work pressure of members of the elected district.

What does the work of the district council contain now?In addition to attending the relevant information of the District Council and the relevant information of each proposal before the meeting, it also includes: accepting complaints in citizens in the area, and then reporting to relevant departments or groups; handling help cases and finding various resources to help help users help the help.Sometimes even accompanied by the help of the police station to report the case to give appropriate support; it will also understand the citizens' opinions on government policy through various channels, so as to reflect the public opinion to the relevant government departments in the district council; in addition, to maintain to maintainIn contact with residents in the district, various activities such as traveling, holding health lectures, blood sugar tests, and influenza needles will be held.Good building management.

Expansion of members of the constituency difficult to deal with work

Don't underestimate these tasks, assisting a corporation can actually spend a lot of time.Taking Tsuen Wan City as an example, there are dozens of old buildings in a constituency. The corporation will meet every two months.It is conceivable.

Therefore, it can be said that if the district council constituency in one area of 10,000 people, if the district councilor is full -time, he can barely cope with it; if it is a member of the district, it will be overwhelmed.It is difficult to imagine expanding the constituency of 10,000 people to nearly 100,000.He can only reluctantly reduce the services of these regional services, and even reduce the quality of service, which still affects citizens in the region.

Some people may ask: Can you do the same job as a member of the appointment or district?The answer is unlikely.The reason is that if the government is conceived, these appointment or district members are from some professional classes in the society, such as principals, central directors, engineers, accountants, and even lawyers.If they can meet on time, it is very rare. How can there be more time to do the work made by the above -mentioned district members?

Furthermore, the responsibility of appointment or election members is not the general regional voters. They do not have the necessity responsibility to accept regional voters' accountability and explain their work results.

There is no need to modify the area selection method

After the return of 1997, Hong Kong has gone through the 6th district council election.The results of work in the region.It is fully denied because of some problems caused by this district council in some special social events. This is a biased decision to deny normal conditions.Nowadays, there are no similar anti -repair social events, and under the implementation of the strong leaders and security regulations of Li Jiachao, the results of the district council election in 2019 cannot occur at all.In fact, the method of reforming the district council is not necessary.

Greatly expand the scope of service scope of district members' constituencies and greatly increase the number of voters in the constituency.The district councilor who worked hard to give an unfair evaluation.It can only be said "pity", "helplessness"!

The author is former vice chairman of the Tsuen Wan District Council