Sentence examples for functional constituencies from inspiring English sources

Members chosen by functional constituencies are mostly pro-government.

But there has been no promise to abolish functional constituencies, either in 2012 or beyond.

Some are politicians; most are chosen by "functional constituencies" to represent sectoral interests.

Functional constituencies elect 30 of the legislature's 60 members, and only five of those seats are occupied by pro-democracy activists.

Martin Lee, the founding chairman of the Democratic Party, said broadening functional constituencies and the Election Commission was already under discussion but was no substitute for general elections.

The second option is to expand the so-called functional constituencies, which represent industries and professions and elect half of the seats in the legislature.

To win a majority of the legislature, the democrats need to hold on to those 5 functional constituency seats and win 26 of the 30 directly elected seats.

The candidates would be nominated by district councillors, but everyone who does not have a vote in another functional constituency (about 93% of the electorate) would be allowed to pick the winners.Arcane and trivial though it sounds, this was a remarkable turnaround from earlier Chinese hints.

The ten new legislative seats would consist of five geographical constituency seats and five functional constituency seats, to be voted in by elected district council members from among themselves.

Tommy Cheung Yu-Yan, who holds the seat of the catering industry functional constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, acted as a core policy link between the HKWSIC and the government, advocating for reductions in alcohol taxation.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing ruled in 2007 that any expansion of the legislature would have to create equal numbers of functional and geographic constituencies.