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HK legislature deliberating electoral reform bill
    2021-04-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

HONG KONG’S legislature started yesterday deliberating a bill on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

The draft laws, in a package named the Improving Electoral System (Consolidated Amendments) Bill 2021, were brought to the Legislative Council (LegCo) for the first and second reading at a meeting that began yesterday noon.

The local amendment came about two weeks after electoral revisions were passed by China’s top legislature.

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopted March 30 the amended Annex I and Annex II to the HKSAR Basic Law, which concerns methods for the selection of the HKSAR chief executive and the formation of the LegCo.

The bill mainly comprises six areas, including reconstituting the Election Committee, providing for the method for selecting the chief executive, updating the composition and formation of the LegCo, and the candidate eligibility, among others.

In accordance with the bill, the LegCo’s five geographical constituencies will be increased to 10, Hong Kong Island will have two constituencies, Kowloon will own three, and New Territories will occupy five. Each constituency shall have two seats in the LegCo with two candidates who got the most votes, into office.

“Under Beijing’s plan, the candidate eligibility review committee should be set up according to local laws. The committee members have to be officials who were nominated by the chief executive and appointed by the central government. There will be one chairman, with two to four committee members,” HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam explained the composition of the committee.

She also mentioned social representatives will be added to the new candidate eligibility review committee.

Lam said she hopes that the draft will be passed by lawmakers by the end of May.

Three important elections in the SAR are lined up for the coming 12 months, with the exact dates already settled. The election for the HKSAR’s Election Committee has been set for Sept. 19, the election for LegCo will take place three months later Dec. 19, and the election for the chief executive will be on March 27, 2022, the HKSAR Government said.

(Xinhua, CGTN)

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