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Pro-democracy activists staged a march yesterday demanding broader rights for Hong Kongs first leadership election in 2017, defying a call by the citys top official to back China on electoral reforms.
Demonstrators rallied against plans by China to vet candidates for the election, and promised more protests. About 48 percent of those who responded to a poll commissioned by the South China Morning Post said lawmakers should vote against the reforms, the newspaper said today.
Protesters and opposition lawmakers run the risk of China canceling the popular election with their actions, and people should be pragmatic about the pace of reforms, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said yesterday. China last month said candidates for the election should be vetted by a committee, which activists said is packed with legislators and business executives favoring Beijing.
Politics is the art of the possible, Leung said in a Letter to Hong Kong aired on Radio Television Hong Kong yesterday morning. I hope the good sense of Hong Kong people will prevail.
Leung has pledged to introduce the universal suffrage bill to the citys legislature early next year. To become law, it will require two-thirds of the 70-member body to support it, meaning its passage could be halted by the 27 opposition members.
If the proposal is rejected, Hong Kong will continue to have its leader picked by a 1,200-member election committee.
Why do they think rejecting the present offer will get Hong Kong a better offer in five years time? Leung said in his speech.
The city is ready for democracy, even as Hong Kong faces a big challenge in passing the necessary legislation, he said, according to a government transcript of his remarks.
Occupy Central With Love and Peace, an activist group, has threatened to disrupt the financial district with a mass occupation to express dissatisfaction with Chinas ruling.
An estimated 4,000 people, wearing black clothes and yellow ribbons, joined the march yesterday, Occupy Central leader Chan Kin-man told supporters. Police estimated that 1,860 people took part.
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Hong Kong Protesters March as Leader Urges Good Sense
HONG KONG
Thousands of pro-democracy activists clad in black marched silently through Hong Kong on Sunday, holding banners saying they felt betrayed and angry at Beijing's refusal to allow fully-democratic elections for the city's next chief executive in 2017.
The protesters, who carried enormous black cloth ribbons through the streets, also held up signs calling for further civil disobedience and cheering on students planning to boycott classes.
"Occupy Central with Love and Peace!" and "Support students boycotting classes!" read some of the signs. "Beijing has breached our trust! Universal suffrage is hopeless!" read another.
Dozens of pro-establishment protesters gathered nearby waving banners and cursing the democracy activists and students.
"Students should focus on studying!" shouted Pok Chun-chung, an organizer of the pro-establishment "Protect Hong Kong" movement. "If you adults have guts then you should occupy Central yourself, not use children as cannon fodder!"
Remained peaceful
The protest remained peaceful and police stood by. Organizers estimated there were around 4,000 marchers at the height of the protest. Police estimated 1,860.
Sunday's march was the latest in a series of confrontations between pro-democracy activists and pro-establishment forces over the extent to which Hong Kong may go ahead with democratic reforms.
A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to Communist Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" form of government. It was given wide-ranging autonomy, including an undated promise of "universal suffrage".
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