On Exploring The Existence Basis And Feasible Mode Of The Functional Constituencies Of Hongkong Legislative Council Under The Background Of Universal Suffrage

In the Hong Kong SAR all the Legislative Council members will be elected by universal suffrage. whether functional constituency system should retain or not has caused considerable controversy and differences in parties. In view of the the original intention of "one country two systems", the maintenance of Hong Kong administrative leading system, the balanced participation of all parties, the various aspects benefit of Hong Kong,keeping the Legislative Council functional constituencies system has great realistic necessity. However, many methods of election against the value of universal suffrage,such as group tickets, exist in current Legislative Council election process.In addition, with the division standard not unifying, the performance of members from functional constituency is not perfect. As a result, many western countries and the Hong Kong democracy camp issued opposition that Legislative Council functional constituencies election belongs to the small circle election,and its existence can not achieve the purpose of real universal suffrage. They think that the real universal suffrage should be "one person one vote, each ticket equivalence" and only the directly-elected members satisfy "true universal suffrage" conditions. All this factors make the exploration of the basis of functional constituencies and the feasible mode under the background of universal suffrage particularly important and urgent.In fact, It is necessary to correctly understand that the set of Hong Kong functional constituency system is based on the occupation representation theory, which not only accords with the basic principles of "Hong Kong basic law", but also not violate the "International Convention on Civil and political rights".Apart from these, "universal suffrage" emphasizes the universality of the election, and the principle of "one person one vote, each ticket equivalence" just show that the existence of privilege than the others are not allowed in the election,which not strictly require all voters to cast votes in elections in the absolute equivalence. So as long as the transformation of the members of theLegislative Council functional constituency election in accordance with the universal suffrage requirements can achieve the purpose of real universal suffrage. Concerning the concrete plans, "direct universal suffrage in functional constituencies " and "universal suffrage after functional constituencies nominated " have their own advantages, but also exist difficulties need to pay attention in practice.