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I must now spend a
time little
to deal with the
first-mentioned survey conducted by CSTEI
whose
representatives
had come to lodge a complaint with the Complaints Division of
Omelco yesterday. Their grievance
caused by the gross
in the Report
was
misrepresentation
of
their
results survey
both
and by some senior
Government servants.
In their survey,
choice
was
given
to
the respondents
to decide which was the
most suitable year for the introduction of direct
elections, SO
was the most
Their
that the respondents could select from 1987, 1988, 1989 and all the way until 1997. The figures showed that 1988 favoured year for the introduction of direct elections. representatives told us that it would be totally wrong all the other percentages for the other years together as the
total percentage against the
introduction
to group
of direct elections
in 1988. Although the respondents in this survey had not been
asked the question whether
direct elections
Or should
should
not be introduced in 1988, the results showed very clearly that
of all the people who wanted to see direct
elections introduced
in Hong Kong, the support for 1988 was the greatest.
results of this particular survey are properly
When the
understood, they
should no
longer
be used to
support the contention that the
majority of
respondents
in
that
survey
against were
the