Hong Kong leader CY Leung has accused "external forces" of involvement in the territory's pro-democracy protests - claims strongly denied by protesters.And just who elected him?
Wrong again:
Elected chief executive in March 2012 by a committee of 1,200 people, Leung Chun-ying proved an unpopular choice among the Hong Kong public from the outset.
The front runner had been Henry Tang, the son of a Hong Kong textile baron, until a scandal over an illegal basement he built derailed his campaign*.
Images of #HK leader Leung Chun-ying are pasted onto umbrellas at democracy protests in Mongkok. Photo by @Alex_Ogle pic.twitter.com/atmL08OYvc — Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 19, 2014*As stupid as these United Snakes. Was the committee of 1,200 hand-picked from a larger pool of certified nitwits? Good luck w/ it if you get any more democracy, kids.
Hong Kong elections are a kind of Mussolini dream in which the Legislative Council is partly elected by individual voters in geographical constituencies, partly by corporate votes from "functional constituencies" mostly of industry. The Election Committee is elected by combinations of corporate and individual voters representing sectors mostly corresponding to the functional constituencies of the Legco, Thus the tourism subsector consists of 887 corporations which vote on candidates to fill 12 seats, etc.
ReplyDeleteLegco can be pretty lively, I believe, but the Executive has overwhelming power, and the Election Committee that appoints him is obviously a rubber stamp.
It can be objected that the British had 100 years to provide the island with some kind of democracy, but never seemed to find the time. Nevertheless the PRC government is clearly failing to meet the commitments it made for the 1997 handover and the demonstrators are in the right legally as well as, you know, cool
Inside Agitators.
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