Elections and politics in Hong Kong: megathread

[Former President tack50]

Isn't LegCo only 50% elected with the other using a corporativist type of election?

No way the Chinese let the pro-democracy camp ever be in control of Hong Kong

[Former President tack50]

Speaking of the special interest electorates, any chance the democrats could make inroads into some of those, somehow? I imaigne they must be fervently pro-Beijing for a ton of reasons but still, flipping a couple seems like the only way the pro-democrats would  be in control. (theoretically anyways, Bejing would crack down long before that)

The alternative seems to be basically running the table with the directly elected seats (going by Jachind's prediction, they'd need a 25-5 result assuming no further flips in the special interest seats or a 4-1 in the PR seats).

[Former President tack50]

For the second part of your question, it should be noted that most "political parties" or political groups in Hong Kong are actually limited companies or societies due to the lack of legislation for political parties. You can read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Hong_Kong.

I know the reasoning behind it to an extent; but this makes Hong Kong seem like some sort of anarcho-capitalist dream land where private companies control the country. Especially hilarious given China (one of the last few remaining nominally communist states) is the one that wants to seize HK