Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
7.1.86 (cont'd)
Constitutional Reforms. (50)
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by others
current composition of Legco, which comprised indirectly elected members while retaining an appointed element, seemed to be meritorious
(Ming Pao, in part one of a feature): The provision in the Joint Declaration
that the chief executive had to be accountable to the legislature had prompted China to worry that the legislature would be above the chief executive. That was why the local pro-Peking elements had been propagating through left-wing magazines that the legislature would have no authority to recall the chief executive and that the legislature would only play an advisory role.
channels that the 1987
• review should only be an "empty review" which would propose no change to the present political
structure.
8.1.86
(HK Economic Journal reported): (Xiaʊ weiyun,
a constitutional law expert and a member of visiting Basic Law
(Ming Pao,,
in part two
of a feature on political reform): The implemen-
tation of the "one
country, two systems"