Comment Re:Make-work Project? (Score 1) 219
It's what they have always done. The candidates you get to chose however are all from the same party, or officially blessed.
Haven't you heard of all that stuff going on in Hong Kong, how Beijing previously promised direct elections for the Chief Exec via Universal Sufferage in 2017, and just recently then they announced that all candidates have to be vetted by the 1200-person "Election Committee" stacked with pro-Beijing representatives? That caused ~500k people to take the streets and protest in Hong Kong.