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Chapter 7 The Governor
64.
At present, the candidate for appointment
Governor is selected by the Secretary
as
of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and is appointed by Her
Majesty the Queen.
The Governor will
continue to be
However, it is
appointed by the Queen until 1997.
considered that, in accordance with the objective of
making the Government of Hong Kong as a whole more
representative, the process of selecting the candidate
for appointment as Governor should be changed, in due
so that his authority will be derived from the
people of Hong Kong and he will be ultimately
accountable to them.
course,
65.
It is therefore proposed that in 1992, after
the progressive changes in the composition of the
Legislative Council and the Executive Council described
in Chapters 5 and 6 of this Green Paper have been
completed, arrangements should be introduced for the
selection of the candidate for appointment as Governor
through an electoral process.
proposed that he should be elected by an electoral
college composed of all the elected Unofficial members
of the Executive and Legislative
candidate so selected, who would have to be a Hong Kong
To this end it is
Councils.
The
belonger, would then be recommended for appointment as
Governor by the Queen.
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