Pro-democracy campaigners will take to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday ahead of a vote on the political reform package that has divided the city and sparked mass protests. The controversial electoral roadmap, which lays out how Hong Kong’s next leader should be chosen, goes for debate at the legislature on Wednesday and will be voted on by the end of the week. It is the culmination of a fraught chapter which saw tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters bring parts of the city to a standstill late last year. Those rallies were sparked by a ruling from Beijing that candidates in the city’s first ever public vote for its leader in 2017 must be vetted. Opposition lawmakers have vowed to vote down the election package, which sticks to the Beijing ruling. Currently the chief executive is elected by a 1,200 pro-Beijing committee. Sunday’s march is the first of a series of rallies which pro-democracy activists say will take place each day until lawmakers vote on the bill...
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