Monday, June 28, 2010

這路如何走下去?


這段日子是香港民主運動最灰暗的時刻。民主派的自我分裂是建基於缺乏對同道者之尊重、包容和互信;從冷嘲熱諷以至謾罵抹黑,都是自我分裂的因由。幾經艱苦爭取到的民主進程,竟然會被人視為「枱底交易」,甚至是「出賣港人」、「背棄民主」的成果,能不令人痛心?

過去兩年努力爭取真普選定義和路綫圖的承諾是暫時落空了。這是政治現實。沒有成果便是沒有成果;把政改方案否決一百次、有沒有普選聯提出一人兩票區議會方案(簡稱「新方案」)也改變不了這政治現實。只要不把眼前的挫折視為終極的失敗,我仍堅信只要民主派團結一致,目標堅定,真普選終會指日可待。但話又說回來,新方案怎可說是「出賣港人」、「背棄民主」的「爛方案」?

有利制衡功能組別

首先,我們必須認清現時功能組別其中兩個最為人詬病的不公平:一、選舉權的不公平。現時一人有兩票的選民約有二十多萬人,但近三百萬的廣大市民卻只得一票;這是選舉上的不公平。二、現時功能組別只代表商界利益,由小圈子選出,為商界所操縱,其政治特權凌駕於港人整體利益之上,這是利益上的不公平。新方案把這兩個不公平情況扭轉為所有人均平等有兩票,而所選出的議會代表亦只代表廣大市民,而非商界利益,怎可說是「不民主」的「爛方案」?

新方案將包括新增五個直選議席,加上五個向全民問責的區議會代表議席,將會更有力量制衡傳統功能組別。有了這個制衡,功能組別的政治特權將被削弱,這對最終取消功能組別是邁進了一步,怎能說是「背棄民主」、「令取消功能組別更困難」?

更重要的是,一人兩票選舉模式是○七年、○九年泛民主派共識方案的中硫砥柱,亦是普選聯提出的全面路綫圖及終極普選方案的基石。○七年的共識方案得到為期六個月、共十二次的公開民調結果支持。怎可說是「從沒諮詢過市民」?當然,爭取一人兩票模式的真正普選仍有很長的路要走,但這始終是一個起點。新方案不獲通過,便連這起點也沒有,這是爭取民主的邏輯嗎?同樣重要的是,雖然中央及特區政府拒絕提出路綫圖的承諾,但這新方案卻是普選聯提出達致真正普選之路綫圖的第一步。現在可以落實我們提出的普選路綫圖中之第一步,怎可說是「出賣港人」?

否決方案自取滅亡

反對新方案的黨派及其支持者說:「你們被中央蒙騙了,這是拖延普選的詭計」、「他朝他們可以將此把功能組別合理化,永遠保存」。為爭取民主,通過談判協商,達成共識是明碼實價的,何「蒙騙」之有?至於「拖延」之說則更無稽,新方案被否決,又有甚麼民主進程?是否更難建立互信,普選被「拖延」的機會更大?只要我們堅定團結,功能組別始終是要取消的。最重要的是,一次又一次沒完沒了地否決又如何?否決了以後又怎樣爭取民主?不要忘記,否決權是談判籌碼,是要來爭取民主進程的,不是為否決而否決的!

怕「行差踏錯」便裹足不前當然是最安全。但怕也要提出理據,終日擁抱着不合邏輯和非理性的恐懼,怎能完成民主大業?希望所有質疑新方案的民主派中堅分子停一停、想一想,眼前的挫折並非絕路;就是絕路,也要互相扶持,繼續走下去,否則香港的民主運動只有自我滅亡!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i dont think the democratic party has betrayed hk people, at most it betrayed itself by throwing away its baseline.
i cannot agree with their or your view about giving in for future gain, ronny. And no, i don't have a better alternative than to give the government proposal and beijing a chance, but i don't think we should gamble on hk's democracy. we can't afford to lose.
how could you take this as good news when your doctor told you that you have a smaller benign tumor found stuck onto your cancer? Would you believe it if the doctor told you the benign tumor will help convert the cancerous cells and the whole thing would get better? i would think the other way around is more likely to happen.

Ronny Tong said...

No one has "given in" for future gain. That is nothing further from the truth. We have done our very best to get what is most achievable from the grips of Central Government. The package itself will change the political culture of the people of HK and for the first time we can all vote on a party list which is part of the road map agreed by all PDs since 2007. You may disagree with the value of the package but please be fair and do not accuse people of "giving" away anything let alone our principle. That is the most unfair and abusive indictment that can be levied against any democrat!

Anonymous said...

ronny,

isn't, or wasn't, asking the government and beijing for a promise on genuine democracy part of the baseline? havn't you yourself cast doubt on qiao xiaoyang's so-called personal view on the definition of universal suffrage?
i understand the package is the ''most acheivable'', that's the political reality. had you and other PDs been only asking for it and nothing else, i would say you won, we all won. but the fact is you get part of what you asked for and settled for it.
i don't mean to sound unfair and let alone abuse anyone, i am just telling you how i and some others out there feel about the compromise the DP made on behalf of us all.
also, there are directly elected legislators who support keeping FC seats. i am not convinced that by adding more directly elected seats, the FC seats will disappear in the end. if it does, i wish you and i long life to see that day come.

Ronny Tong said...

Compromise means give and take. If you do not give you cannot take. The 5 seats are hybrid suffrage seats. The next step is to seek to do away with the restriction on nomination and candidacy, not the seats.