The leaders of Occupy Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests will be facing city government representatives and the anti-Occupy residents on Tuesday, but they feel that they will not reach a favorable agreement during the talks as early as now.
Stanley Chan, one of the elder participants of the protests that took place in Mong Kok, predicted that the meeting will not end in a resolution.
"We know that there's no room for negotiation with the Hong Kong government, no space to go further," Chan stated, as quoted by Huffington Post.
The meeting on Tuesday will be conducted between the Hong Kong government, led by the most senior civil servant of the city Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, and five representatives from the protesters who are comprised mainly of members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students.
The said dialogue between the two opposing parties will be allegedly televised at 6 p.m. Hong Kong time. It would be the best venue for the protesters to air their side and to plead with their fellow Hong Kong citizens to air their support.
The protests in Hong Kong was ignited when the National People's Congress of China announced that the candidates vying for a government seat for the 2017 chief executive elections in Hong Kong need to be approved by a committee from Mainland China. This irked a number of Hong Kong residents, which led to the street protests.
They have managed to occupy a few of the key streets in Hong Kong, and they demanded that Chief Executive C.Y. Leung should be removed from his office as the Hong Kong Chief executive.
Though the protesters are convinced that Beijing will not give them what they want during Tuesday's meeting, they are still hoping that the residents of the special administrative region will be more open-minded to their cause and in achieving a significant transformation in the country.
Occupy Central With Peace and Love leader Benny Tai said during a Monday night protest, "In this movement, what results have we achieved? Many citizens expressed their ideas and they all think we have achieved an awakening. This social awakening is already our fruit before we have reached genuine universal suffrage."
