Misjudgment of the situation! Hong Kong Democratic Party no one can run in the Legislative Council, experts: should revise the political platform, wholeheartedly support "patriots govern Hong Kong"

Source: Global Times

After the election of the 1,500-member Election Committee, the focus of Hong Kong society shifted to the Legislative Council election in December and the chief executive election in March next year. Among them, the pan-democrats were almost absent in the election of the Election Committee, and whether they participated in the Legislative Council election also became one of the focal points.

Hong Kong Legislative Council Complex. Image source: Visual China

According to the Hong Kong Headline Daily Network, the Hong Kong Democratic Party issued an article on the evening of the 11th that the Nomination Period for the Democratic Party's inner-party selection of the Legislative Council election at the end of this year has expired, and no party members have been received to submit application forms. That means Democrats will miss a new Legislative Council election. In fact, within the Democratic Party, there has been uncertainty about whether to send people to run for election, and finally the responsibility has been pushed to the head of the Central Committee. On September 30, the party issued a document on the "Mechanism for selecting Democratic Candidates for the 2012 Legislative Council Election", which lists the basic thresholds and requires party members who intend to run for election to obtain a joint nomination of 20 members of the branch of the constituency to be contested and 5 members of the remaining 4 branches, that is, 40 party members need to be supported, and a majority of the members present at the special membership meeting must vote for it to be recommended. Only Han Dongfang, a member of the New Territories West Branch, claimed to participate in the election, but he recently admitted that he could not qualify for the party selection because he had only obtained less than 10 nominations.

After the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, a number of opposition groups announced their dissolution, including the "Education Association" and the "Democratic Front", and some major parties also had the intention of disbanding. For example, in April this year, yang Yueqiao, Tan Wenhao and four other leaders of the Civic Party sent a joint letter to the former party friends, saying that they had proposed to dissolve the Civic Party during the bail period. However, there are still some groups ready to participate in the Legislative Council elections. On September 24, three district councillors of the "Democratic Association" passed the oath-taking ceremony, and district councilor Liao Chengli expressed support for the party's participation in the Legislative Council election: as to whether he would run, he described it as a "last resort". On October 2, Di Zhiyuan, chairman of New Thinking, said that three or four members, including him, are actively considering running for election, and will decide how many people to send to the general meeting on the 23rd of this month.

Liu Zhaojia, vice president of the National Association for the Study of Hong Kong and Macao, said that the Democratic Party has misjudged the situation, abandoned the moderate and rational line, and made itself move toward no foothold; as a political group, if it does not participate in the election, it is equivalent to giving up its own platform for participating in politics, and it will not be able to develop at all in the long run. He believes that if the Democratic Party wants to continue, it should revise its political program, wholeheartedly support the fundamental principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong" under the Constitution and the Basic Law, and cut off the anti-China chaos in Hong Kong. Guo Weiqiang, a member of the Legislative Council of the Federation of Trade Unions, believes that the fact that no one from the Democratic Party can run for the new Legislative Council this time is mainly an internal problem of the party. He believes that the Democratic Party has reached the point where it is today, and it is entirely the leadership leadership that misjudged the situation and believed that taking the radical line is the way out, and facts have proved that this is actually a road of no return. Ma Fengguo, a member of the Legislative Council in the fields of sports, performing arts, culture and publishing, said that there is no problem with dissident legislators in the Legislative Council, and the most important thing is to abide by the Constitution and the Basic Law and work for Hong Kong under the principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong".