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say this is an appointment.
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into the Council", people would say: "Come on, come, you
Cannot can't keep it in your own family. If the Chief Executive were to say: "All right, let me give
you 600 people, all respectable people, but let me make sure that I can control
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changed their minds; and that is why they say: well, given the choice between directly elected members and indirectly elected members via the District Boards, of course we go for
the the forma. But if there is also a choice between indirectly glected members via the pistrict Boards and these appointed
m. members in effect but the euphemism will have it elected members via the Grand Electoral College, what I call the Grand Appointment college, then we say: "Well, let us keep the District Boards.
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And not the directly elected members to replace appointed members. Sir, the key objection, as far as I'm concerned, to this part of the recommendation or policy decision in the Joint Declaration, is that that, globally, as a unit, this is, the composition of the Legislative Council is unlikely to change, so that even by the summer of 1994 no less than 30 members assuming we keep the
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