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Constitutional Reforms (34)
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4.12.85 (cont'd)
5.12.85
fully buy July 1, 1997 and therefore the
necessary changes should be completed in 12 years. China however though that the new political system should be set up gradually after the SAR Government was formed.
(Ming Pao): HK people
were not enthusiastic about elections because election would not increase the freedom they enjoyed. It was sensible to assume that the current political reform would not guarantee that the freedom and rule of law under the existing system would be preserved over the next 61 years. The reform did not meet the needs and wishes of most HK people.
Communist Papers
(Li Ting-kwan, writing in the reader's forum of Ta Kung Pao): People who
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by others