‘Only 20 per cent of Hong Kong district council seats’ to be directly elected under proposed overhaul
- Source says remaining seats on revamped district councils to be either appointed by government or selected by committees staffed by pro-establishment figures
- Proposed proportion of directly elected district council seats would represent drop from previously suggested 30 per cent
The proposed overhaul is expected to be scrutinised by the Executive Council, the city’s key decision-making body, on Tuesday and potentially announced on the same day.
A source on Monday said only one-fifth of all district council seats would be elected by residents under the proposal, with the rest to be either appointed by the government or selected by committees staffed by hundreds of pro-establishment figures.
The proportion of directly elected seats under the most recent iteration of the proposal would be less than the previously suggested 30 per cent.
The Post earlier learned that the number of constituencies could be slashed from 452 to 71, with a source saying the government planned to redraw boundaries to align them with those of the 71 area committees filled by government-appointed members.
