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HIS PART. INDEED, TWO LEGCO MEMBERS WHO VOTED FOR THE DEBATE,' NAMELY MR. POON CHI-FA AND DR. RICHARD LA SAID THE MR. MARTIN LEE SHOULD NOT HAVE PRESSED THE GOVERNOR TO CONVENE A LEGCO DEBATE NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY OF LEGCO UNOFFICIALS HAD VOTED AGAINST THE DEBATE.
4. THE LEGCO'S DECISION TO ACCEPT NCNA'S INVITATION TO THE LEGCO DELEGATES TO VISIT BEIJING WAS GENERALLY WELL RECEIVED. THE RESPONDENTS TOOK THE INVITATION AS AN INDICATION OF CHINA'S FORMAL RECOGNITION OF LEGCO. THEY HOPED THAT THE LEGCO DELEGATES WOULD TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT THE LOCAL CONCERN ABOUT THE DAYA BAY PLANT TO THE CHINESE LEADERS AND PERSUADE CHINA TO ACCEPT THE OBSERVATIONS IN THE LEGCO REPORT.
5. MANY OF OUR GRASSROOT RESPONDENTS HAD FAILED TO APPRECIATE THE INTRICACIES OF THE DISPUTE AMONG THE LEGCO MEMBERS ON THE DAYA BAY ISSUE. TO THEM, LEGCO SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS INCLUDING A PRO-NUCLEAR GROUPD LED MY MISS MARHA TAM AND MR. ALLEN LEE, AN ANTI-NUCLEAR GROUP UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MR. MARTIN LEE AND A NEUTRAL GROUP. IT WAS SAID THAT SOME LEGCO MEMBERS WERE LOSING POPULARITY BECAUSE OF THEIR RECENT PERFORMANCE. MR. JACKIE CHAN, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS CRITICISED FOR CHANGING HIS STAND ALL THE TIME.
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