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Sir, the most democratic option
contained in the tentative draft of the Basic Law
regarding the future legislature of the SAR - and
that Basic Law is scheduled to be released for general public consultation in May this year
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allowance for the retention of 25 per cent, mestF
of the present method of electoral college consisting of indirectly elected members from the district Boards.
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Sir, how is it then consistent with this avowed object of continuity" or "convergence,
for us to pre-empt that particular model before the
Drafting Committee of the Basic
Suppose,
when the Basic Law is out, we find this democratic
model, being accepted in accordance, I hope, with the wishes of the people of Hong Kong,
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Then how How Lex of worched can the Government implement what it has seriously decided to do? by replacing those ten indirectly
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still going to be kept in the Basic Law
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Sir, there are only two possibilities
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conclusion was arrived at after consultation with
China; The other possibility being that it was arrived at independently of the leaders of China. Let me take the latter proposition first. In that
case, it would mean that the Basic Law could well
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end up according to this democratic model, as I just
described, In which case, the Government, of course,
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cannot then effeet what it has promised to do. But
the first alternative is even more sinister. It
would mean that China had agreed with the British
Government in fact Roy destroy the system of indirect election via the electoral college of the District Boards, Put another way, China has effectively.
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