#ProvisionalCouncil
15 Pro-Dem Legislators' Stay in #LegCo to be Decided by Public Opinion Poll

The pro-democracy legislators' decision of whether or not to stay in the Legislative Council for the next year has been up to debate, after the Carrie Lam adminstration postponed the Legislative Election by a year.

15 pro-democracy legislators had decided to use a public opinion poll to determine their stay in the Legislative Council, with the Democratic Party entrusting the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (#HKPORI) to conduct one.

Chairman of Democratic Party Wu Chi-wai stated that they would leave if half of all participating supporters believes that the pro-democracy camp should leave the Legislative Council.

Participating legislators include seven from the Democratic Party, five from the Civic Party, Claudia Mo from HK First, Fernando Cheung from the Labour Party and Shiu Ka-chun from the Social Welfare functional constituency. Leung Yiu-chung from the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre also expressed that he would take the polls to account.

HKPORI Director Prof. Robert Chung believes that the Institute had decreased the gray area in the current threshold, but stated that "politically neutral" participants would also be taken in account, causing the percentage for those in favour or against the stay to be both not more than half.

When asked about the protocol for such an event, Wu stated that they would take different information into account before making a political judgement.

As for why they were only taking supporters of the participating legislators into account, and not towards all pro-democratic supporters, the Democractic Party stated that it had once considered for all supporters of the pro-democratic camp to participate, but Prof. Chung denied the request stating that the legislator's citizen authorisation came from their supporters.

Prof. Chung had been adamant on Friday, stating that were pro-democratic legislators not tied down, they should not have asked for authorisation.

Source: Ming Pao #Sept5

#DemocraticParty #WuChiWai #RobertChung #Methodology #PublicOpinion #Authorization

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Read the 3-part Series on Democracy Front's Dillemma on Whether Incumbent Pro-dem Lawmakers shall Serve in Extended Term Under Beijing's LegCo Arrangement:

Part 1:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24384

Part 2:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24385

Part 3:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24386

#PublicOpinion #SadCity #FailedState
Nearly 60% of Hong Kong people were unhappy in the past year: public opinion survey reveals

Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (#HKPORI) released the latest survey finding on popularities of the Chief Executive and her Administration on December 29, 2020.

At an individual level, 59% of the respondents said they were unhappy in 2020, 1 percentage point higher than the year before (58%). Only 13% said they were happy in 2020, 6 percentage points lower than the year before (20%). The net happiness value in the year past stood at negative 45 percentage points, again hitting a new low since the survey series began in 1992.

#RobertChung Ting-yiu, Chairman and CEO of HKPORI described the sharp fall in Hong Kong people’s happiness rating as “cliff-breaking”. The rating in net happiness among Hong Kong people declined from 40% in 2018 to negative 38% in 2019. Chung explained that this is related to the changing political and economic environment in Hong Kong, as well as the pandemic hit. He opined that people with different political backgrounds and stance were all unhappy, otherwise, the rating won’t be declining so rapidly.

Besides, the survey showed that the popularity rating of Chief Executive Carrie Lam stood at 29.7 points. Her approval rate is 18%, disapproval rate 69%, giving a net popularity of negative 51 percentage points. As many as 44% of the survey respondents gave 0 score to the CE’s overall rating.

Regarding the HKSAR Government, the latest satisfaction rate was 17%, whereas 60% were dissatisfied, thus net satisfaction stood at negative 43 percentage points. The mean score is 2.1, meaning close to “quite dissatisfied” in general.

The survey showed several negative ratings on government performance. Robert Chung criticized that the ratings showed that the city’s government has been going against public opinion in many of its policies.

Source: InMedia #
https://bit.ly/2KIY28G

#HappinessRating

#Breaking #MassArrest #NationalSecurityLaw
Benny Tai, Robert Chung, and fifty more Democratics arrested this morning for inciting subversion of state power through arranging ‘35+ Primary Election’

The #DemocraticParty suggested a ’35+ #PrimaryElection scheme’, hoping to secure over half of the seats in the #2019LegislativeCouncilElection, yet the election was cancelled later. The #NationalSecurityDepartment of Hong Kong Police Force arrested around #50Democratics.

At around 6 in the morning, the Democratic Party stated on their Facebook that ex #LegCoMember #JamesTo Kun-sun, #AndrewWan and #LamCheukTing were arrested at their homes for #IncitingSubversinoOfStatePower through suggesting the ’35+ Primary Election scheme’. #GaryFan Kwok-wai from the #NeoDemocrats was also arrested, and he stated on his personal Facebook that ’The Charge is joining the Primary Election’.

Social Movement Activist #VentusLau Wing-hong, #JimmySham Tsz-kit , ex-Legislative Council Member #LeungKwokHung, #EddieChu Hoi-dick, #WuChiWai, #RoyKwong Chun-yu, #HelenaWong Pik-wan, #AlvinYeung Ngok-kiu, District Councillor of the Southern District #TiffanyYuen, ex- #theStandNews reporter #GwynethHo Kwai-lam, District Councillor of Central and Western District #FergusLeung, jurisprudent #BennyTai Yiu-ting, and the Chair of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (#PORI) #RobertChung Ting-yiu were also arrested.

Source: Apple Daily, Stand News; #Jan06

https://hk.appledaily.com/breaking/20210106/JSJPIIZ6WNGBZHMPVDF76T3ODM/