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have to be significantly
chosen by other forms of election.
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smaller than the total
It would also be important to allow for future
flexibility in the
proportions of members chosen by the various methods (see paragraph 4 of the accompanying paper "Issues Connected with the Question of Convergence").
14. This paper has not addressed the question of direct
elections, which is being actively discussed in the Hong Kong media and by a sub-group of the Basic Law drafting
committee. The British and Hong Kong Governments have not
of
course adopted any view as to whether direct elections
should be introduced in Hong Kong before 1997. But the
Hong Kong Government are satisfied that if it were decided
that part of the legislature should be elected in this way
at some time before 1997 this could in practice be done in
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Kong, and which would be capable
post-1997 arrangements
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