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The GEC
I hope this explanation of the background is helpful.
would be essentially an electoral mechanism rather than a
functioning part of the executive or the legislature. It would have
limited functions and would presumably be brought into existence
only when these were to be exercised (probably only once every four
years or so). In our new papers to the Chinese we are doing no more
than building on an idea already current in Hong Kong and previously
floated with the Chinese. The concept has figured in earlier papers
cleared with the Prime Minister and colleagues.
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