Home Affairs Department guideline: Care Team members must stop work if standing for election; official titles barred in campaigning
民署指引：關愛隊參選須停工 助選禁用職銜
The nomination period for the District Council election will begin in the middle of next month. The Home Affairs Department has issued guidelines to Care Teams setting out the rules during the election period. Under the guidelines, Care Team members who stand for election must immediately stop participating in Care Team work. Those concerned may also not stand for election, canvass, participate in election activities or support individual candidates in the name of a Care Team. Roy Lap Wai Chu, a former Southern District councillor who is also a Care Team captain, said people with multiple identities had participated in elections in the past and believed candidates knew how to handle the matter. Tik Chi-yuen, chairman of New Thinking, which plans to field candidates in the District Council election, said voters might confuse the two identities of candidates and Care Teams. He urged the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Electoral Affairs Commission to formulate statutory guidelines as soon as possible to ensure a fair election.
區議會選舉提名期下月中展開，民政事務總署向關愛隊發指引，列出選舉期間守則，其中關愛隊成員倘參選，須即時停止參與關愛隊工作，相關者亦不可以關愛隊名義參選、助選、參與選舉活動或支持個別候選人等。身兼關愛隊隊長的南區前區議員朱立威表示，過往亦有多重身分者參與選舉，相信候選人懂處理。擬派人出選區議會的新思維主席狄志遠稱，不排除市民會混淆候選人或關愛隊的兩個身分，籲廉署和選管會盡快制訂法定指引，確保選舉公正。