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of Hong Kong's system of representative government.
would be welcomed by the community and would be
conducive to the maintenance of stability.
28.
given that
On the question of timing, the Government has
concluded that it would not be right to make such а
major constitutional change in 1988,
opinions in the community on this issue are so clearly
divided. The argument that the Legislative Council
should continue for one more term with its present
forms of membership, rather than undergo а second
restructuring
in
three years,
is strong.
However,
there are also good reasons for leaving sufficient time
before 1997 for the
new
form of election
to
become
firmly established.
The Government has
therefore
decided to introduce a number of directly elected
Members into the Legislative Council in 1991.
29.
are
best
The Government believes that direct elections
carried
out on the basis of single-seat
geographical constituencies.
This raises the question
present geographically-based
It is difficult to
of what happens to the
electoral college seats.
advantage in having two parallel
see
any
systems
of
geographical representation in the Legislative Council,
operating both directly and through District Boards.
That would
geographical
methods.
having Members mean
on elected
а
basis by both direct
and
indirect
I n
addition,
two having
types
of
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