Hong Kong: Select Hong Kong residents chose members of the election committee who chose city leaders in the week’s poll that Carrie Lam’s chief executive was called “very meaningful” as the first reform intended to ensure the candidate with Beijing loyalty.
The Election Committee will choose 40 of 90 members of parliament in the legislature of the city during the election in December, and electing Hong Kong leaders during the poll in March next year.
Nearly 4,900 voters represent various professions and industries that go to the week’s election under the presence of severe police will choose among only 412 candidates for 364 seats in the 1,500-strong election committee.
Another undisputed seat or is held by people chosen based on their degree.
“The selection of today’s electoral committee is very meaningful because it is the first election held after we improve the electoral system to ensure that only patriots can take office,” said Lam.
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Pro-democracy candidates are almost absent from Hong Kong’s first elections since Beijing overhaul theit is not yet known if Lam will seek re-election in March.
He said the new election committee would represent widely because it included more organizations and grassroots associations representing Hong Konger who lived and worked on mainland China.
In May, the legislature changed the Hong Kong election law to ensure that only “Patriot” – people who loyal to China and semi-autonomous regions – will rule the city.
The committee was also expanded to 1,500 members, of 1,200, and the direct number of voters for committee seats was reduced from around 246,000 to less than 8,000.
The restructured selection process ensures that most electoral committees will be mostly pro-Beijing candidates, which tend to choose the chief executive and almost half of parliamentary members who are in harmony with the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Options on Sundays took place at five polling stations which were very surrounded by police.
Post-morning local newspaper South China previously reported 6,000 police officers will be deployed to keep the polls, exceed the number of voters.
The result is expected Sunday night.
Four activists from the Social Democratic Pro-Democracy Political Party League held a small protest near the polling person in Wan Chai.
They put banners criticizing “selection of small circles” as pretense representing public opinion.
The four were stopped and sought by the police.