Bright future for Hong Kong guided by CPC
What they say
Huang Ping, director of the Center for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Election Committee, with broader coverage and more balanced participation, better reflects the interests of Hong Kong society. The time between the design of the new electoral system and the LegCo election was very short. The turnout rate of around 30 percent was not low for a local election. What matters is not the turnout rate, but whether the election is designed to be more reasonable, fair, practical and conducive to long-term development.
Grenville Cross, the former director of Public Prosecutions of the HKSAR and a British senior counsel
The electorate of around 30 percent was a respectable result for a new electoral model and provides a solid foundation for the future. The 90 incoming legislators, whilst all patriotic, will have divergent views on domestic issues, and will undoubtedly hold the government to account. They include people of standing and promise who are entering politics for all the right reasons. If any democratic model is to succeed, it must be capable not only of solving actual problems, but also of anticipating future concerns. This, in turn, requires it to be manned by people of the right quality who are genuinely interested in promoting the public good, and this has now been achieved.
Allan Zeman, chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group
The new system for LegCo can ensure that everyone can work together to finally solve the many problems that Hong Kong faced such as lack of housing, lack of technology, lack of national education. When everybody is working together as one team, bills will still get scrutinized, but instead of taking four to five months to get passed, it should only take a few days. There are scholars, professors, medical doctors, experts in various fields, and business executives in the Election Committee. There are also foreigners as well as Mandarin speakers and it really encompasses a very broad group.
