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it has indicated to us that we should abide by a general
objective.
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A lot of reasons have been given in the White
Paper I am indeedly
have
poornment officials who sympathetic to the playwright and the diretor who have taken such painstaking cautiousness
in drafting the White Paper. This is because they must
lead us towards convergence and accommodation with the basic law which has not yet been finalised and which is still unclear. The White Paper has rejected the introduction
of direct election to the Legislative Council in 1988 using
A cual divergence of views as a reason The White Paper mentioned
nothing about the membership of our future Executive Council. Also, the White Paper has already decided that in our pistrict Board and in our two municipal councils, we still have one
still be filled
the
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third of the seat being hope tied by appointmentes ections is will be postponed until 1991 the electoral college will be absolished.
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10
Members
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In replacement there will be ten, directly elected seats coming from districts There will be 14 seats coming from functional constituencies, and among them the two municipal councils will have two and the appointed as will be as much many as twenty. In addition, we will still have ten official seats. In other words, the Government will still be able to control
the majority in the Legislative Council until 1994. This is
no gradual progress, this is utter stagnation.
I nesmet that we have such á mótin
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Sir, on the motion I have great regret and I object to the White Paper which is drafted really for accommodatio
ing
with the Basic Law in future.
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MR POON CHI-FAI (in Cantonese): Sir, the conclusions on whether the direction of a certain political system is right or wrong, just like the conclusions on the pros and cons of any issue, will certainly be very varied if we look at them from different points of view. That is why sometimes
it is indeed very difficult for us to judge who is right and
who is wrong.
In fact, if we look at the ancient history of
China, we will be able to see that there were a lot of policies which were not popular but were proven by history to be policies