Adding to what Beaver has said, the resignation/by-election is really meant to be a referendum in disguise (變相公投). The thing is, HK doesn't have any referendum legislation, so there is no means for HK citizens to really voice their opinions on critically important matters. Through the 5-region simultaneous resignation, LSD and the Civic Party (and hopefully the Democratic Party as well) can brand the re-election process as a form of referendum. If you support the call for a generally elected HKSAR CEO and a fully elected Legislative Council body, you vote for the pan-democrat candidate to reinstate him back into office. If you'd rather give up the right to vote for your own HKSAR CEO and continue to have the undemocratic functional constituencies in LegCo looking out for their own benefits instead of looking out for the general public's interest, vote against the pan-democrats or abstain from the vote.
The choice is clear -- why is this so difficult to understand?!
-Lik |