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our community and Dr. HQ Kam-fai, in fact, had touched
on this yesterday and I wish to go into detail now.
The earliest to appeal whether the survey is conducted by The Marketing Decision Research commissioned by the
Hong Kong Economic. Journal and the South China Morning
is the carliest of its kind of the 507 Post Of the 1209 people interviewed regarding
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whether partial direct elections,should be introduced
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to the Legislative Council. in 1991, 66 percent were in favour, as to whether the introduction of te directly
elected seats in 1991 is in accordance with public aspiration, Mine percent of the respondents felt that it was very good and forty-three percent felt that it
52 was quite good bringing a total of fifty-two percent. This is a bare majority, and yet it has been said that
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there are only thirty-line/ percent for and there are
some who are without any views and, in fact, fifty-seven 57 fur con of the people feel that it more or less complied with
public aspiration.
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Regarding other decisions such as whether the Governor should remain President of the Legislative Council and
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twenty-one and the fact that twofthirds of pistrict Board Members should be elected and one-third appointedand Sû ster close to eighty percent of respondents were in support. However, a large number of the respondents felt that in 1991, the number of elected members to the
Legislative Council should be equal to or greater than
the number of appointed members. Recently, the Hong Kong
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Federation of Youth Groups has also published its findings. Of the 409 youths between 18 and 30 who responded to
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a questionnaire, 68.5 percent were in favour of introducing direct elections to the Legislative Council in 1991.
Please take note that these were surveys not conducted by
the government. Therefore, I believe that when Sir David
3 said that the White Paper has wide support in our community
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