Constitutional Reforms (61)
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(The HK Observers, meeting with Lu Ping): Some members of the legislature should be directly elected but whether all of them
should be elected would have to be decided in
accordance with HK people's wishes.
(The Progressive HK Society, at a meeting with Lu Ping): Reforms must be gradual and direct elections should be introduced
progressively.
(report) (Umelco member Allen Lee, in an
interview with HK
Economic Journal):
It
would be meaningless to
introduce direct
elections to Legco
because China would
never give HK people
real power to administer the territory. He would
not oppose direct election although he would no longer advocate it, because it would