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THE PRESIDENT.
HIS EXCELLENCY:
amendment under your name?
MR. SZETO:
Mr.Szeto Wah, you may wish to move the
(In Cantonese) Sir, wish to amend the
5 the motion standing under the name of the Chief Secretary My amendment
reads as follows "I wish to add to the Chief Secretary's metion which reads that'this Council takes note of the plans and intentions contained in the White Paper; Government; The Way Forward
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"The Development of Representative
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and I wish to add the following In But
regrets the Government's decision to introduce only ten 10 directly elected members into the Legislative Council in 1991, and to implement it by replacing the ter seats currently filled by indirect elections from the district board.de
There are two salient points to my amendment motion:
(1) Only ten directly elected seats will introduced in 1991, that
bei dent. The
is far too few. If the total number of seats in the Council
remains the same in 1991, then directly elected seats will account for less than 18 White Paper has not clearly stipulated whether the total number of seats in the Council will increase; if so, the proportion of directly elected seats will be even smaller. Why does the White Paper only provice
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the number of seats from direct elections but not make
caliponis of stipulations concerning the number of other seats and the total number of seats? Why the disparity? Is there already the intention to pave the way for an increase in other types of seats and in the total number of seats, with a view to reducing the proportion of directly elected seats in the Council and weakening their influence? The legislature as described by the Basic Law contains an element of direct elections; that is absolute public opinion and is irresistable.
Is this Is it because that that is irresistable that Government has to
Is there and
There being resorts to the tactic of proportional minimisation?
A only very few directly elected seats in 1991, will Government then sing the song of gradualism, so that by 1997, there will continue to be very few directly elected seats an ornament
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