Interesting Observations | Report to Voters 向選民報告

Although the election is over, I would love to share with you some interesting observations about the election.

1. As far as I know, there is none candidate stating clearly that he/she will nominate Donald Tsang as a candidate for the next Chief Executive in their platform. At least not for the IT sector.

2. But there are many candidates declaring they will support Alan Leong, or, as there might be other prospective candidates running for the CE Election, declaring that they will not support Donald Tsang clearly.

3. The IT Voice team stated at the beginning of the campaign that they will not nominate Donald Tsang. Up till this moment, nobody has given any pressure to us for this explicit pledge. The “pressure” theory may be a bit exaggerated.

The fact is, there are still a big support to Donald Tsang from the public, so why, why candidates who support Tsang did not pledge to their voters? This is the catch.

Remember, the final voting for the CE is anonymous, but the nomination is named. So, whether a member voted for Donald Tsang at the final stage is unknown, but the nomination is known.

Any candidate who clearly state their stance is worthy of respect, like one candidate of the financial services sector, he announced, though after elected, that he will nominate and vote for Donald Tsang. For those not, well, I think they are trying to lure voters, and later use their nomination as “chips” to exchange for interests. Imagine this scenario: If Alan Leong got 99 nominations, then his/her nomination will become crucial. This might be the sole reason why the majority of candidates do not pledge to their voters about the only role of the Election Committee. Are they running for their own interest? Because if they pledged, there leaves no room for negotiation.

This system is, rotten.

2 thoughts on “Interesting Observations”

A lot of the elected candidates do not tell people who they will vote for at the election because they can use this as the bargaining chip to ask for favors from BowTie as the CE election approaches. even when BowTie announces that he will run for election in January, you may not see may “voters” pledging to vote for him until the last minute…these people, although they will follow the direction from Beijing, are happy to see the Pro-Democracy camp gaining enough votes to nominate Alan Leong because this help them gain more out of bargaining with BowTie.

This system is designed for control, but this system is not optimal either for HK and for our motherland – look at all the protests, the conflicts, the fairness problem created within China due to channeling of economic stimuli to HK, the worsening of various aspects of HK if without those stimuli, all the “unintended” exchange of interests as a result of this small circle election system. I believe there is a better answer to HK and to our motherland. Nobody is going to question the sovereignty of our motherland, they are just asking for more democracy in HK, not for the term itself, but as a means to solve some of the current problems in HK.

ebin on December 13, 2006 at 4:36 pm said:

A lot of the elected candidates do not tell people who they will vote for at the election because they can use this as the bargaining chip to ask for favors from BowTie as the CE election approaches. even when BowTie announces that he will run for election in January, you may not see may “voters” pledging to vote for him until the last minute…these people, although they will follow the direction from Beijing, are happy to see the Pro-Democracy camp gaining enough votes to nominate Alan Leong because this help them gain more out of bargaining with BowTie.
lento on December 13, 2006 at 5:02 pm said:

This system is designed for control, but this system is not optimal either for HK and for our motherland – look at all the protests, the conflicts, the fairness problem created within China due to channeling of economic stimuli to HK, the worsening of various aspects of HK if without those stimuli, all the “unintended” exchange of interests as a result of this small circle election system. I believe there is a better answer to HK and to our motherland. Nobody is going to question the sovereignty of our motherland, they are just asking for more democracy in HK, not for the term itself, but as a means to solve some of the current problems in HK.