Legco urged to extend invitation to NPC chairman
Pan-democratic lawmakers are calling on the legislature to invite National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo for a meeting, an event which could see a state leader visiting Legco for the first time since the 1997 handover.
But while the Civic Party and its allies are making this peace offering to Beijing, radicals in the camp have vowed to wreak havoc in party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit's campaign for the chief executive on the grounds that it is a 'small-circle' election.
Ronny Tong Ka-wah, of the Civic Party, said the pan-democrats had agreed to invite Mr Wu, who will be visiting Hong Kong on December 2 to officiate at a telecommunications conference, through the legislature.
'We hope there will be a chance of communication between the legislature of Hong Kong and the mainland. We have received many parliamentarians from other countries in the past.'
He said that if a meeting could be arranged his allies hoped to discuss with Mr Wu the city's desire for introducing universal suffrage by 2012. The Legislative Council's house committee would discuss and decide on the issue next Friday.
Li Gang, deputy director of the central government's liaison office, would not confirm whether his office had received Mr Leong's election platform, which was sent to its director, Gao Siren , and to Liao Hui , director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
