Hong Kong may get full voting rights
China decided today to consider introducing universal suffrage for Hong Kong in 2017, the official New China News Agency said.
But China’s parliament ruled out full democracy at the next chief executive election, in 2012, saying only that “appropriate revisions” could be made to the selection method. It added that the city’s legislature could be fully directly elected by 2020.
The chief executive is currently picked by an 800-seat election committee stacked in Beijing’s favor, and only half of the city’s 60-member legislature is directly elected, with the others picked by various business and interest groups.
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