Hong Kong ready for fresh 'Occupy' protests says city leader
    

    

            


                

                                    
                    

                        
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader said on Wednesday the city was 
prepared for a fresh flareup of pro-democracy street protests, while 
issuing a call to arms against opposition democratic lawmakers who have 
disrupted government policy-making in the legislature.

              Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's comments to a 
high-profile investment conference just days before the internationally 
renowned Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament, comes as a holdout group of 
protesters steadily build up their presence outside the city's 
government headquarters.  
   
           "Will 'Occupy' resurrect itself?," Leung asked investors and 
bankers at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference. "The Hong Kong
 government as always maintains its preparedness but I can say that the 
public, if 'Occupy' happens again, will not be sympathetic."
     
         Leung also urged voters to expel democratic lawmakers in 
city-wide legislative elections next year, highlighting the bitter 
political divisions that have emerged in the Asian financial hub after 
last year's pro-democracy protests, when activists seized and blockaded 
major roads for 79 days.
     
         Some activists have pledged to relaunch a second wave of civil 
disobedience protests this summer when the administration presents a 
proposal for how the next chief executive will be elected that is widely
 expected to mirror an earlier one by Beijing.
              China
 wants candidates to be pre-screened by a small committee stacked with 
pro-Beijing loyalists, a model decried as fake "Chinese-style" democracy
 by the street activists.
              China promised Hong Kong 
"universal suffrage" and wide-ranging freedoms under a so-called 
"one-country, two systems" model, when the former British colony was 
returned to China in 1997.
              In an attempt to pressure
 the government over the proposal, democratic lawmakers have stalled 
funding for infrastructure projects and things like a new innovation and
 technology bureau.
              "For those of you who are 
registered voters, vote them out next year ... Go to the polling 
stations and vote them out," Leung warned during the investor 
conference.
              Over the past few week, activists have 
begun expanding their camp outside government headquarters, which had 
been the main site for the 'Occupy' movement before it was largely 
cleared away in December.
    
          A "public library" for students has now been set up on a 
pavement with books, desks and chairs laid out in neat rows drawing 
growing crowds of students daily. More tents and protest art have also 
sprung up in the vicinity in recent weeks.
              Some observers expect more young activists to re-join the cause during the summer vacation. 
              "It will grow bigger," said Simon Wong, a 71-year-old organizer of the library and study room.
               (Editing by James Pomfret; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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