CHINA A majority of Hong Kong’s legislators will be popularly elected for the first time in the territory’s history under a set of proposed electoral reforms that the government says could lead to universal suffrage in 2017.
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council is currently comprised of 30 popularly elected members with another 30 chosen by narrowly based “functional constituencies”, representing professional or industrial interests. The territory’s chief executive is also selected by a 796-member “election committee” dominated by the pro-Beijing camp.
