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in the legislature, nor about how to provide a workable link between the executive and legislature.
26.
Government business is now introduced into the
Legislative Council by appointed officials. They will have to go before, or in, 1997. So will all the other appointed members. How then is government business to be introduced or approved? Will the future equivalent of the Executive Council have to be chosen predominently from the elected Legislature to provide the necessary link? Will the head of the executive have a means of getting his chosen lieutenants elected into the legislature by some form of Grand Electoral College and, if so, will this be seen as an acceptable form of election by the public at large? Some of the answers to these questions may be found in the Basic Law. More will, I suspect, depend on our own ingenuity, particularly if the solutions are to prove both practical and lasting.
27.
There is much to be done. The 1988 White Paper charts the first stages of the way ahead. There are many more stages still to be worked out.
28.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to H M Ambassador in Peking.
I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
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David Wilson
Governor