The Professional Commons organized an email campaign to respond to “Consultation Paper on Arrangements for Filling Vacancies in the Legislative Council”. Within 5 days we have got 941 citizens utilizing this platform to submit their opinion directly to Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau via email. Among the submissions, the highest were from the following sectors:
- Information Technology: 205
- Education and Higher Education: 147
- Sports, Performance, Cultural and Publication: 101
The full text of the opinion submitted is as below:
Dear Officer of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau,
I have the following response to the ““Consultation Paper on Arrangements for Filling Vacancies in the Legislative Council”:
1. Government has a preselected position before the consultation. On one hand it excluded the option of retaining the by-election. On the other hand, Government used biased and misleading language and wordings throughout the consultation paper and the subsequent promotion, to distort facts and mislead public opinion to accept Government’s stand to abolish the by-election. I would condemn such acts by the Government.
2. All of the four options in the Consultation Paper are depriving of citizens’ right to vote, right to nomination and right of election.
3. I strongly urge the Government to withdraw the four proposed options. When there is vacancy in the Legislative Council it should be filled by by-election. Similar arrangement should apply to the District Council geographical constituency and District Council (second) Functional Constituency.
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