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PART ONE OF TWO
MIPT: STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT: LONGER TERM ISSUES: GRAND ELECTORAL COLLEGE
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF DRAFT PAPER
BEGINS
INTRODUCTION
A 'GRAND ELECTORAL COLLEGE''
ON 28 JULY 0987, HM CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN PEKING, MR PETER THOMPSON, HANDED OVER TO AMBASSADOR KE ZAISHUO FOUR PAPERS ON
ISSUES CONNECTED WITH THE QUESTION OF CONVERGENCE IN RELATION TO
THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATURE OF THE FUTURE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (SAR). THE PAPERS CONSIDERED, IN SOME DETAIL, THE ROLE AND INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF THE THREE MAIN INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, NAMELY: THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE (NOTE 1), THE EXECUTIVE (NOTE 2) AND THE LEGISLATURE (NOTE 3).
2. IN NOTES 1 AND 3 REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF A
BROADLY-BASED ''GRAND ELECTORAL COLLEGE'' (GEC) WHOSE
RESPONSIBILITIES MIGHT BE :
(A) TO ELECT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE HONG KONG SAR (NOTE 1)
SEMICOLON AND
(B) TO ELECT A PROPORTION OF MEMBERS OF THE SAR LEGISLATURE FROM A
LIST OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE (NOTES 1 AND 3).
3.
THE COVERING PAPER TO THESE NOTES EMPHASIZED THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, AT THIS STAGE, TO PREDICT HOW THE CONCEPT OF A GEC, WITH SUCH IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTIONS, MIGHT BE RECEIVED IN HONG KONG IF SUCH A BODY SEEMED DESIRABLE THE POSSIBLE COMPOSITION
AND METHODS OF SELECTING MEMBERS WOULD REQUIRE FURTHER
CONSIDERATION.
4. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO CONSIDER, IN GREATER DETAIL, THE POSSIBLE COMPOSITION AND OPERATING PROCEDURES OF A GEC WERE
SUCH A BODY TO BE CREATED IN FUTURE.
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