Looking at the Civic Party from its glory days to its disintegrating disintegration, I feel deeply that “success or failure will turn around”. The party is composed of a group of “blue blood” elites, most of whom are consciously superior in intelligence. At first, they regarded themselves as gentle, rational, and professional. Radicalism is not their cup of tea. Grandpa confronted sharply? I looked back at its history, and one of the turning points was when the Legislative Council resigned from 2009 to 2010 and the whole people revolted. At that time, it was Jimmy Lai who led him on this road of no return.
The Civic Party’s participation in the “five district general resignation and referendum” is one of the turning points on the radical line, and there is the shadow of Jimmy Lai behind it.
The idea of the “General Resignation of the Five Districts” was first proposed by Huang Yumin, the standard-bearer of the radical “Community for Social Democracy”. If they win, the pan-democrats can rely on strong public opinion to demand that the SAR government and the central government speed up the pace of political reform.
At that time, Yumin used the attitude of the leader to create pressure for the Democratic Party and the Civic Party to participate, and they all staged this “general resignation drama”. At the beginning, some core members of the Civic Party actually had reservations, and party leader Yu Ruowei directly pointed out that this action was “excessive.” The Democratic Party once actively considered it, but then the elder Szeto Wah became more and more inappropriate. He felt that the Social Democrats wanted to seize the leadership of the pan-democrats, with bad intentions, and there were other people with complicated motives behind it, so he publicly opposed it.
According to Uncle Hua’s recollection, one day at noon, Li Zhuming, who supported the “Five District President’s Resignation”, invited him to Li Zhiying’s mansion for lunch. In addition to Li Zhiying, there were Chen Fang Ansheng and Li Pengfei. Both Li and Lai persuaded Uncle Hua to support this action, but he refused on the spot, and the lunch broke up unhappy.
Martin Lee is Jimmy Lai’s “dead back” and he founded the Democratic Party together with Uncle Hua. Obviously, Jimmy Lai “told” Martin (Li’s foreign name) to lobby Uncle Hua. In fact, Li himself is the mastermind behind it . In addition, Martin Lee appears to be a leader of the Democratic Party, but because he is a senior barrister and has a closer relationship with the “big party”, he has a certain influence on the party’s decision-making.
At that time, Chen Fang Ansheng had a deep connection with the Civic Party, and she and Li Zhiying were “confidantes”, which was an open secret. It is conceivable that she vigorously persuaded the party to participate in the “Five District General Resignations”.
The Civic Party was lobbied by these fierce people behind the scenes, and the radical forces within the Civic Party also emerged. Announced that Qi Qi will fight this battle, and used a very hot slogan “referendum in the five districts, national uprising”, and Yu Ruowei also knows that the “revolution” is too strong, claiming that the “uprising” is not to overthrow the government. Even so, the Civic Party has They were stained with a radical color, and later they simply used this color to ask for votes, unable to extricate themselves.
The final turnout rate for this “referendum” was only 17.1%, which was far from more than half of the target. It can be said that it ended hastily and became a “farce”. However, the Citizens’ Party and the Social Democrats refused to admit defeat.
From time to time, Li Zhiying continued to discuss the great cause of “reform” with Yu Ruowei, Chen Fangan, and Li Zhuming, not only nurturing the ideological line, but also providing financial support. In support of the “Five District General Resignations”, he donated 1 million yuan each to the re-elected legislators of the Civic Party and the Social Democratic League. Between 2006 and 2011, he donated 20 million yuan to the Democratic Party and the Citizens Party. This kind of monetary donation has been maintained until around 2014, before and after Occupy Central.
Both Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai supported the “universal uprising” and persuaded the leader of the Civic Party, Yu Ruowei, to join the chariot, causing the party to go on the road of no return.
The Civic Party was poisoned by radicalism back then, and it carried the banner of “universal uprising”. There were various internal and external reasons, but there was obviously Jimmy Lai’s shadow behind it, and in the end, it was led down a black road just like the fate of the Democratic Party. .
Tokihito Monogatari
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