Occupy Central
Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.
Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 55:
Full coverage of the day’s events
More in favor of reforms veto as divisions grow
Hongkongers have grown wider apart on political reform with the pledged veto by pan-democrats getting more support, a survey shows.
Commissioned by the Concern Group for Public Opinion on Constitutional Development, Lingnan University interviewed 1,004 Hongkongers on their views of the political reform proposals between January 26 and February 1.
It was the fourth survey done by the group, which was founded by 15 moderate pro-democracy members, and includes former lawmaker Fred Li Wah- ming, former information coordinator Andy Ho On- tat and Centaline Property Agency founder Shih Wing-ching.
The poll found that 32 percent of respondents support the pan-democrats, 22.9 percent were pro- establishment and 37.5 percent said they were neutral. The rest said they had no opinion or were unwilling to answer.
Of those supporting the democrats, 76.8 percent said the political reform proposals should be vetoed, up 10.3 percentage points compared with the previous survey.
Those against Beijing's offer of vetted universal suffrage were recorded at 35 percent and 46.6 respectively in May and July last year. It reached 66.5 percent in mid-September, right before Occupy Central movement took place.
Among the pro-establishment supporters, 87.2 percent still hoped that the reform bill would be passed by the Legislative Council, close to last September's 88.9 percent.
Group member Cheung Kwok-wah, who is also the dean of the Open University's School of Education and Languages, said the division has become very obvious. "Society has become more divided since the first survey," Cheung said.
The group called on the government to find ways to coordinate the different opinions.
It also wanted the authorities to come up with a package that had the support of most of the public.
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor admitted that it is a big challenge for the government to handle political reform.
She said the government will try to convince citizens that the reform proposals for the 2017 chief executive election are not the final version and that there will be room for amending the electoral arrangements after that.
Democratic Party chairwoman Emily Lau Wai- hing has insisted the democrats will veto the package in the Legislative Council.
Carrie Lam says the government never underestimated the difficulty of selling the electoral proposal. Photo: HKEJ
Less than half in poll on reform plan now say ‘pocket it first’
Less than half of Hongkongers polled on Beijing’s framework for the 2017 election for chief executive now support the idea of “pocketing it first”, Apple Daily reported Monday.
The Lingnan University survey was the first of its kind done since the Occupy movement ended in December.
The ratio fell below 50 percent for the time since the survey, commissioned by a group of businesspeople and academics called the Concern Group on Public Opinions on Constitutional Development, was first conducted.
Of the more than 1,000 people interviewed between Jan. 26 and Feb. 1, 49.5 percent said they wished to see the government’s plan for the 2017 election passed, 3.8 points fewer than in the last survey, in September.
About four in 10 people were still against the plan, as in the last survey.
Li Che-lan, a professor at City University who belongs to the group, said the significant fall in support showed the government’s “hard sell” strategy isn’t working.
Among respondents who said they were in the pan-democratic camp, 76.8 percent opposed the reform plan, up more than 10 points, while only 15 percent, down 14 points, said they were in favor of passing it.
Of those in the pro-establishment camp, 87.2 percent were for the plan, a ratio similar to that in the previous survey.
When asked about their stance if the government were willing to make concessions, such as replacing group ballots and company ballots with individual ones, 52.1 percent of those who initially opposed the plan changed their minds and said they would support it.
The concern group said that showed that many citizens are in fact open to communication if the government fine-tunes the electoral framework.
Responding to the survey results, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the government has never underestimated how hard it would be to push for political reform and will strive to let citizens understand that the final plan submitted to Beijing is not an ultimate one but reserves room for future improvement.
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