Have you heard of a government, any government in the world that actively discouraged citizens from voting? In fact, the Hong Kong top Duck has indicated he will NOT vote in the upcoming May 16th by-election. And it is optional for his senior executives to decide to vote or not (trust me, if any of them dare to show their faces to vote, it will be news that night and they will likely be finding a new job soon).
Under this kind of political climate, it is exciting to see the youth of HK interested enough about their political future to run in the upcoming by-election.
Their website is t12hk.org which redirects to their blog. In this English blog entry, they have an introduction about what they want to achieve. Note that they’ve raised the HK$250,000 in about 2 weeks time as the election deposit required by law but they are still raising funds for other election expenses like advertising to get their message out.
There are two news clips (both in Cantonese) about their efforts.
