{"id":95090,"date":"2016-07-18T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=95090"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:44:05","slug":"95090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/95090\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop the new election rule before it is too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d The traditional wisdom of the pre-1997 colonial government may no longer be the \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach in governance in 2016 Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

But a brewing row over an abrupt change to election rules targeted at Legco election candidates who advocate independence announced on the eve of the beginning of nomination on Saturday shows the move to tinker with the rules is an act of playing with fire.<\/p>\n

More damaging is it risks tarnishing the image and hard-earned reputation of elections in Hong Kong as being fair, open and just. It stokes fears that the surprise rule change is part of Beijing\u2019s intensified and explicit attempt to suppress the growth of pro-independence advocacy in the SAR.<\/p>\n

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  By Chris Yeung \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d The traditional wisdom of the pre-1997 colonial government may no longer be the \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach in governance in 2016 Hong Kong. But a brewing row over an abrupt change to election rules targeted at Legco election candidates who advocate independence announced on the eve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":95092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cy0718.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saaypJ-95090","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95296,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/mainland-official-honest-about-anti-independence-election-rule\/","url_meta":{"origin":95090,"position":0},"title":"Mainland official honest about anti-independence election rule","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"July 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung It could not be more ironic that it was a senior Chinese official at the Liaison Office who turned out to be honest about the purpose of the new election rules whereas senior Hong Kong officials and the election watchdog were economical about the truth. 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