Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
To ensure the smooth operation of the entire city on the polling day of the Legislative Council (LegCo) General Election, the Civil Service Bureau (CSB) today (November 14) issued a direction to Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Departments to establish a dedicated “Polling Day Coordination and Support Centre” in the departments under their purview on December 7 and make flexible deployments of additional manpower on the polling day. This includes arranging for civil servants who are normally scheduled to rest on Sundays to be on duty on the polling day, having regard to operational needs of the departments, to give full support to the work of the LegCo Election. They also have to take all possible measures to enable civil servants who are on duty on the polling day to cast their votes.
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, said, “The LegCo is an important component of the political structure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Ensuring the success of the eighth LegCo General Election is an important task for the HKSAR Government and all government departments have a responsibility to give full support to this. By flexibly deploying additional manpower to work on the polling day and providing all possible facilitation measures for civil servants on duty, we can ensure a smooth and orderly operation of the city and smooth voting by citizens, and at the same time enable civil servants to exercise their right to vote.”