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Press-cutting from Ming Pao dated 30.7.86
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by Margaret NG
Although Donald LIAQ, Secretary for District Administration, has openly denied that the pace of democratization has slowed down, senior
government officials do not refute in private that certain major reforms
which have been brewing for quite some time have turned "impracticable" due
to pressure from China, One of these abortive ideas is the ministerial system which was earlier rejected by LU Ping, Secretary General of the State
Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
Concept of the HK Government Different from the Public's
China rejects the idea of implementing a ministerial system in
Hong Kong mainly because it does not wish to see the emergence of political
parties here. In the minds of the Chinese leaders, ministerial system is
inseparable from party politics.
The ministerial system which has been under discreet discussion
in the upper stratum of the Hong Kong Government, however, is not the type of system involving political parties and direct popular elections as conceived by some public organizations. What the Hong Kong Government has
in mind is to let appointed unofficial councillors take charge of different policy areas, participate in the policy-making of the corresponding government departments, and answer questions in these areas raised in the Legislative Council. These appointed councillors are given the name of "ministers",
Such a ministerial system in fact has nothing to do with democratization. At the most it allows more participation of "elite citizens"
in the operation of the Government. As "ministerial system" has borne a
bad name which has put China on guard, the phrase should never be brought up
again.