Occupy Central
Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.
Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 140:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 04-05
Call to stand up and be counted
Beijing's top man in Hong Kong has called on supporters of the government's political reform to respond to criticism of the proposals.
Central government liaison office director Zhang Xiaoming said Beijing genuinely wants to see Hong Kong achieve universal suffrage in 2017, and urged supporters of the proposals to stand up and defend them.
The arrangement for the chief executive election is authoritative as it is based on the Basic Law in terms of the nomination of candidates, election method and appointment by the central government, Zhang wrote in a full-page commentary in the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao.
The proposals are "constitutional, democratic, lawful and reliable."
Zhang also said the proposals addressed the needs and demands of society.
He said the National People's Congress Standing Committee's August 31 decision "not only meets the aspirations of Hong Kong's society for democracy but also shows the central government and the SAR government's sincerity in pushing for Hong Kong's democratic development."
Zhang wrote that the reform has Hong Kong characteristics as the SAR has its own constitutional status under the Basic Law and its own unique situation in democratic development with a complicated social and political atmosphere.
"The SAR is not an independent or semi- independent political entity," he said, adding that Hong Kong is merely a Special Administrative Region enjoying a high degree of autonomy as enshrined in the Basic Law.
Zhang said that has defined the basic direction of a universal suffrage system in Hong Kong.
He also said the calls for a civil nomination mechanism or nomination by political parties for chief executive candidates deviated from the Basic Law.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said yesterday the implementation of universal suffrage in 2017 will pose a significant meaning to the implementation of universal suffrage in the Legislative Council.
Leung said if the proposal cannot be implemented in 2017, it remains unknown when will be the next opportunity.
Civic Party chairwoman Audrey Eu Yuet- mee said the recent pan-democratic campaign against the proposal is aimed at asking citizens not to accept it first.
Tien digs deep for political survey
Liberal Party lawmaker James Tien Pei-chun has paid HK$250,000 out of his own pocket to conduct a "super opinion poll" to gauge whether the public supports the government's political reform proposals.
Tien, the honorary chairman of the party, has commissioned the University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Programme to conduct the survey next month.
He hopes to use the results to convince pan-democratic legislators who vow to veto the proposals to vote in favor of reform.
Tien said program director Robert Chung Ting-yiu will conduct the poll about 12 days before lawmakers vote on the proposals.
"We really hope that the ... reform can be passed in the Legislative Council," Tien said.
Chung said the poll will survey 5,000 individuals in order to reduce the margin for error.
Late last month, the first survey showed that only 47 percent of the people supported the package, 38 percent were against and the rest undecided.
The poll, commissioned by Now TV, was conducted by HKU POP, the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Centre for Social Policy Studies.
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