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Over 60 pct HK people support constitutional reform package: survey

Xinhua, May 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

More than 60 percent of Hong Kong people support the government's constitutional reform package, Hong Kong's largest political party announced Monday.

The survey, released by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), also showed that 32 percent of respondents oppose the reform package.

Some 1,070 people were questioned for the poll. More than 80 percent of them think lawmakers should vote in accordance with public opinions.

The DAB's vice chairman, Horace Cheung, urged at the press conference that pan-democratic lawmakers respect the public's wish to have universal suffrage in 2017. Endi