oclp commissioned university of hong kong public opinion programme (hkupop) run poll on 3 proposals – of involved allowing citizens directly nominate candidates – presentation beijing government. ran 20 29 june 2014. total of 792,808 people, equivalent on 1 fifth of registered electorate, took part in poll either voting online or going designated polling stations.
the proposal tabled alliance true democracy, group comprising 26 of 27 pan-democratic lawmakers, won unofficial referendum securing 331,427 votes, or 42.1 per cent of 787,767 valid ballots. joint blueprint put forward scholarism , hong kong federation of students came second 302,567 votes (38.4 per cent), followed people power proposal, garnered 81,588 votes (10.4 per cent). 3 called public allowed nominate candidates 2017 chief executive election, idea repeatedly dismissed beijing inconsistent basic law. alliance s provided nomination election committee , political parties, well. plan not specific on method of formation of nominating committee, stating should democratic can . 2 other proposals nomination public , nominating committee only. 691,972 voters (87.8 per cent) agreed legislative council should veto reform proposal put forward government if failed meet international standards, compared 7.5 per cent disagreed.
the unofficial referendum infuriated beijing. mainland officials , newspapers called illegal while many condemned occupy central, claiming operating @ behest of foreign anti-china forces , damage hong kong s standing financial capital. zhang junsheng, former deputy director of xinhua news agency in hong kong, denounced poll meaningless . state-run global times mocked referendum illegal farce , joke . region s chief executive, leung chun-ying, offered rebuke: nobody should place hong kong people in confrontation mainland chinese citizens. mainland censors meanwhile scrubbed social media sites clean of references occupy central. poll prompted flurry of vitriolic editorials, preparatory police exercises , sophisticated cyber-attacks strategies evolved on time. according cloudflare, firm helped defend against unique , sophisticated attack, cloudflare volume of traffic unprecedented 500gbit/s , involved @ least 5 botnets. oclp s servers bombarded in excess of 250 million dns requests per second, equivalent average volume of legitimate dns requests entire internet.
before referendum, state council issued white paper claiming comprehensive jurisdiction on territory. high degree of autonomy of hksar [hong kong special administrative region] not full autonomy, nor decentralised power, said. power run local affairs authorised central leadership. michael degolyer, director of transition project @ hong kong baptist university, said: s clear surveys vast majority of people voting in referendum doing reaction white paper – particularly because see threatening rule of law ... s not negotiating on 1 country 2 systems principle, s demolishing it.
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