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changes.
However
to see the 1987
the
of question
Accordingly many people in Hong Kong will not wish to review leading to dramatic introducing a directly elected element into the Legislative Council continues to attract greatest public interest.
Views are divided.
a
Those strongly in support of introducing a directly elected element maintain that this is the only way of ensuring the evolution of genuinely representative government, capable of sustaining the "high in the Joint Declaration. Those degree of autonomy" provided for against argue that the Hong Kong community is not ready for such a However, there seems to development, which could be destabilising. be a widespread acceptance, even among many of the more conservative business and professional groupings that the direct election of up
to 25 per
cent of the legislature might be tolerable in 1997, and more radical change. The division might neutralise demands for even of opinion in the BLDC sub-group on the structure of government in which a number of the Hong Kong members are apparently against the
1997, after of direct introduction
Most community.
on focus to
reflection
debate is
the
the
is not a true
of the public
the timing of
elections even
of the opinion of
fact in
tending now introduction of a directly elected element and on members of the legislature to be selected by this method.
the proportion of
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