MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, rightly as pointed out in paragraph 8 of the Statement, society right now is polarized: a group of views insists that Hong Kong’s constitutional development takes a big step forward and that there should not be an impasse whereas another group refuses to accept the 31 August Decision.
I believe the Government needs to concentrate its efforts on lobbying two groups, one is the citizens who remain uncertain. If eventually the opposition camp do their own poll which indicates 60% to 70% of the public supports the constitutional reform, I believe they will make a volte face for votes or for their own conscience.
The second group is more important, which consists of the forces behind the opposition camp. If these forces also believe it is more important to take a step forward on constitutional development, instead of marking time, I believe no matter what the reason is for them to think it is important, meaning important to Hong Kong and equally important to China …
PRESIDENT (in Cantonese): Mr CHAN, please ask your question.
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): … I believe Members of the opposition camp will easily know how to do a graceful turnaround. As for who or what the forces behind the opposition camp are, I am sure it is clear to everyone.
May I ask the Chief Secretary whether she will target these forces behind the opposition camp to do some hard lobbying?
CHIEF SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION (in Cantonese): President, I thank Mr CHAN for the question. We will definitely lobby Members of the Legislative Council to support the constitutional development package within our ability and in a lawful, reasonable and sensible manner.