Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2007
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An election will be held in March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Only the 800 member Election Committee (EC) can vote. The EC is elected by 3% of the population in Hong Kong. Incumbent Donald Tsang is widely expected to secure re-election in a landslide.
The other candidate representing the pro-democracy camp is Alan Leong of the Civic Party. Leong expects to lose, but the main purpose of participating is to ensure Tsang does not win by default. Leong needs 100 nominations from the Election Committee to participate in the election. If Leong can participate, then this will be the first CE election since 1997 with more than 1 candidate.
The pro-democracy camp had 156 candidates contesting EC membership and they expected to win 72 seats. [1]
The actual results are much better for the pro-democracy camp. They won 114 seats from 137 candidates. Add to that the 20 or so pro-democracy LegCo members who are ex officio EC members and Leong almost certainly can get the 100 nominations needed.
All pro-democracy candidates in Accountancy, Education, Engineering, Health services, Higher education, and Legal won. The pro-democracy Legal candidates won all the seats in their sector.
[edit] Pro-democracy camp EC election results
| Sector | Nominated | Won |
|---|---|---|
| Accountancy | 7 | 7 |
| Architectural, surveying and planning | 2 | 1 |
| Sports, performing arts, culture and publishing | 1 | 0 |
| Education | 15 | 15 |
| Engineering | 8 | 8 |
| Health services | 7 | 7 |
| Higher education | 15 | 15 |
| IT | 9 | 9 |
| Legal | 20 | 20 |
| Medical | 2 | 1 |
| Tourism | 5 | 0 |
| Social welfare | 46 | 31 |
| Total | 137 | 114 |
[edit] Protests
Some pro-democracy politicians refuses to participate in the CE and EC elections, claiming doing so is legitimizing undemocratic practices. On the day before the EC elections, the Civil Human Rights Front organised a protest. They walked backwards around LegCo 7 times, then marched slowly to Central Government Offices, symbolising that EC is a great leap backwards for democracy and it slows down the progress of democracy. [2]
Leung Kwok-hung trapped himself in a giant bird cage and followed Leong around on EC election day to protest Leong's participation. He also shouted slogans at the ballot counting center such as: "Down with small circle elections! Shame on Civic Party! Shame on Democratic Party! Shame on Donald Tsang!" [3]
[edit] External link
- (Chinese) Civic Party press release
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