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MR. ANDREW WONG (in Cantonese) :
I have made most of my views known during the debate
on the amendment motion myself except that
whi say
for
ance with MR. Lee Yu-te and Mr. Tai and one other Member
I do not wish to repeat
Sir,
it was said that, if we replace indirect elections with direct elections, we can have the pistrict Boards as nominating agencies but this is not geceptable,
lad we dy have to
Romin make cominal because We should allow nominations by allong
This is true of all democratic
as there are ten people..
countries.
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We do not have
warry
to be afraid that
sweet if there we selost but the process
we found in this
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me people are not sure of who to
will take
ke itself forward naturally,
the debate, In this recent election that many people had
been elected ipso facto. But, on the whole, some
Members feel that the White Paper is not related to
distist board the drop in turnout for the DB elections. I think
the th mon't hate they are. In 1982, was rather high because of the
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Lopene high hopes. In 1985, again they were very high because
1990 the White Paper in 1984 encouraged a lot of participation a
E because it introduced indirect elections this Council.
And in 1985, the official Members were abolished in
This expleumed the
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District Boards. No merel o££icial Members and that
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I feel that
the lower turnout this time round is related to a degree
to the White Paper, especially the abolition of the
electoral college in the Winite faper.
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and if you, Sir,
embarrassing in some cases.
Concerning other parts of the White
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Paper, I would like to say something out of due respect, but they are certainly points to be, considered,
Legislatie Conncil is, the relationship between the begisature and the
Executive
These two are completely different organisations
as Lovener of Hong Land and
head of both, it would be rather
So perhaps what we can