The party apparatchiks in Beijing must be looking at the “election” for Hong Kong’s next chief executive with horror. The exercise to choose the de facto mayor of the territory is meant to be rigged. Voting in a city of 7m people is restricted to an election committee of 1,200 that is dominated by pro-Beijing types. They will elect whoever China wants.
北京的中共官員們想必正忐忑不安地注視著香港下屆特首的選舉。這場選舉——遴選的其實是類似于一市之長的地區長官——免不了受到操控。在這座有700萬人口的城市，只有一個選舉委員會的1200名成員有投票權。他們中大部分人是親北京派，會把票投給北京方面屬意的任何人選。
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