A vehicle drives among protesters blocking the main street to the financial Central district, outside the government headquarters, in Hong Kong (9/29). Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
TEMPO.CO, Hong Kong - Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have set a deadline for the government to respond to their demands for democracy reform.
A brief statement from the protesters, naming themselves as the 'Occupy Central civil disobedience movement', said that they had set Wednesday, October 1 as the deadline for the city's unpopular Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to meet their demands for a genuine democracy and urged him to step down from his position Hong Kong's regional head.
Wednesday is a holiday for China's National Day. Therefore, larger crowds are expected to flood the streets. The government has said that it was canceling a fireworks display planned to celebrate the National Day, due the threat posed by the group of protesters.