By Coconuts Hong Kong October 22, 2014 / 16:52 HKT
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The government knows exactly how the people feel about universal suffrage... but they won't tell anyone. Boo!
A member of LegCo asked a question to the secretary for constitutional and mainland affairs, Kenneth Tam, about comments CY Leung made referring to an opinion poll the government conducted on universal suffrage in the 2017 chief executive elections.
The lawmaker Kenneth Leung quoted the chief executive’s remarks from Sep. 25, when he claimed that almost 70 percent of respondents said that they would vote in the 2017 chief executive elections if “one person, one vote” was introduced.
Based on these comments, the lawmaker demanded to know the full details of the poll’s results, whether there were other polls commissioned by the government in the last two years, and lastly, if the government would publish the results of all polls they conducted “as a manifestation of the public’s right to know”.
A rep for the chief executive said that the poll was conducted by a hired third party, and that they do so “from time to time” to gage public opinion on big social, economic and political issues.
But of course, these polls are for the “government’s internal reference only”, and details will “generally not be made public”.
Image: League of Women Voters
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2014/10/22/hong-kong-government-conducted-polls-universal-suffrage-wont-release-results
