Beijing’s top legal official, the Basic Law Committee director Li Fei, said that allowing voters to nominate chief executive candidates would violate the Basic Law during a debate on Hong Kong’s electoral reform.
Li asked the 15 legal professionals who attended the meeting to explain the legal principles — in particular, Article 45 — to the public and through the media. The city’s pan-democrats want the public to be allowed to nominate names for the top job, which can prevent party politics. But now, with such comments from Beijing, public nomination looks unlikely to happen for quite a while, if ever!
Source: SCMP
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