Bag first
The Bag first (Chinese: 袋住先) appeared in Hong Kong Cantonese vocabulary and appeared in the controversy over the political system reform in Hong Kong in 2016 and 2017.
Background[edit]
The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is nominated and elected by an Election Committee of 1,200.[1] According to the local constitutional documents of the Basic Law, the method for the creation of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong must be based on local conditions and the principle of gradual progress, and finally be nominated by a "general representative nominating committee" in accordance with democratic procedures and then elected by universal suffrage.[2]
The current method of generating chief executives has been criticized as a small circle election,[3] and some critics have pointed out that according to the current system, only less than 0.03% of Hong Kong's population have the right to vote for the chief executive.[4]
Meaning[edit]
"Bag first" in Cantonese has the meaning of "first accepting one vote",[5] "receiving it first",[6] "putting it first in the bag"[7] or "putting it in your hand first".[7]
In the case of the political reform package, "the bag first" has the meaning of "what is what you want, and you can't get it later."[7] This means that the people of Hong Kong should accept the reforms in the political reform package at this stage and strive for deeper political reforms in the future. Carrie Lam, then the Chief Secretary for Administration, also said in the Wall Street Journal that the Chief Executive's general election plan proposed in the plan is not necessarily the ultimate arrangement. There should be a possibility of a change in the future.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ "香港特首是怎么选出来的？". 德國之聲 (in 中文). 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ "中華人民共和國香港特別行政區基本法". 維基文庫. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ 陳韜文 (2017-02-16). "【特首選舉】矛盾重重的小圈子選舉政治". 明報. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ 蔡曉穎 (2017-03-26). "藝術團隊直播抗議香港「小圈子選舉」". BBC中文網. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ ""袋住先"，还是争到底？". 德國之聲 (in 中文). 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ "如果當年「袋住先」，今天結局又會如何？". 端傳媒. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 岑逸飛 (2014-08-14). "「袋住先」方案的玄機". 經濟通. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ↑ "林鄭《華爾街日報》推「袋住先」". 星島日報. 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
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