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The Joint Declaration does not rule out
to either direct or indirect electionsenly
appointed seats in the future SAR Legislature
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bor de present appointed seats wil net onthui after 1997 Thus, for the sake of stability, zist.
how shall we best pave the way progressively fore
suitable legislators to fill seats vacated by
appointed members?
I think that it will be more
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conducive to public confidence and more practical
to have a new electoral college comprising
District Board Members and people from other
sectors, or have a wider scope covered by
functional constituencies than to increase
directly elected seats.
I feel that this is an important point.
feel
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present stage reached in the drafting of the Basic Law seems to indicate that the Electoral
follege $ystem now existing in the Council is
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not ruled out. Should the Basic Law provides for
ani_alic the present system to somete unchanged, but for provides an added element of
of directly elected seats, and yet the Government pre-empts that by abolishing indirect elections through the Electoral follege, then only two options remain for representative
government unless other arrangements are made.
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the second being not to converge with the future. Both, of course, cannot be taken. So is it not
the mple of dat h a dangerous political adventure to change, District Board elections to this Council?
Members agree that the basic principle underlying
any constitutional change or reform during the
transition is to maintain and promote social
stability and economic prosperity. This is, of
course, the primary task of this Council. I believe that for the benefit of maintaining
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