Almost half of Hongkongers support the government’s proposals for the 2017 chief executive elections, according to the first poll since the plans were released last week.
Commissioned by Now TV and conducted by the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the survey spoke to 1,167 people of voting age.
Forty-seven percent were found to support the controversial proposals, 38 percent were opposed to them, and the rest were yet to make up their minds.
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Among those aged between 18 and 29, 63 percent were against the plans.
The proposals – which would see two to three chief executive candidates stand for a public vote after being vetted by a Beijing-approved nomination committee – will be voted on by lawmakers before the end of July.
Many in the pro-democracy camp have vowed to veto the plans.
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