JMSC0007 - by Robin Pang

We have been to the Peak this week and have seen how the campaign of each candidate goes. It is a district I guess that is less enthusiastic towards the district council election. Besides the banners that we saw along the road and some posters on the minibuses running the Peak route, there is not much to be seen.

It is also difficult to sample opinions from the residents there. The residents at the Peak are hard to reach for two reasons:

First, residence at the Peak is of low density. Therefore, it covers a large area, but with only a few population. Second, most people living at the Peak are extremely wealthy. They own cars and hire maids and drivers. Many of them do not go on the street so often, or, if they shop themselves, they may prefer bigger supermarket at Admiralty or Central.

As a result, massive campaign on the street corner or public forum is not likely to be seen here. Both of these increase the difficulty of covering district and writing up an advancer story.

Still, we managed to approach some voters. Most of them showed little interest in the district council election and only very few could actually name the candidates or their political affiliation. One of them, Mrs. Hui said she would prefer the current councilor Mark Lin because he is supposed to be more experienced.

Click Mrs Hui excerpt to listen to the audio recording excerpt.

On the contrary to our expectation - we thought the statement made by Jame Tien (as in the previous post) might create some sparks on the election - residents at the Peak seem not to care much about the election. But we would still follow up on the situation and conduct more interviews with the residents there.

Seeking views from the other side, we have arranged an interview with Mr. Louis Leung, the independent candidate, on the coming Thursday. Although Mark Lin from the Liberal Party has turned down our invitation and Civic Party’s Tanya Chan has yet to replied to our message, hopefully we can know more about the election from Louis.

Photos of original size were also uploaded to the Flickr account of Momo’s and mine. To accompany with the photos. Click here for a brief audio guide: