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On reading chapter VI 'The Presidency of the Legislative
Council' and chapter VII 'Practical Aspects of Elections' of the
White Paper carefully, I feel that every decision is well founded.
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This shows that the Government and members of the Executive Council
have devoted great efforts in considering each problem. They all
have my strong support. The only thing that I have to bring out as
a reminder is the permitted expenditure for 1988 Legislative
Council elections. Consideration should be given to allowing
different functional constituencies to have their own permitted
limit in expenditure since the number of eligible voters varies
with different constituencies. This point has been mentioned in
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support.
Sir, at the time when the White Paper was released, I
observed that the majority of the people were only concerned about
whether direct elections would be introduced in 1988. Naturally
IZ enough, many readers were tempted to turn to chapter in search of
the answer they were most interested to know. After having read
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all chapters carefully several times, I have found that the most
inspiring and thought-provoking part of the White Paper is,
fact, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the "Introduction" in chapter I.
With only a few hundred words and in a plain and concise style, the
White Paper has managed to describe clearly the unique situation of
Hong Kong, the objectives and key functions of its Government and
the various problems it has to face. It is my wish that all of us
could keep our heads, ponder on the meaning of these few paragraphs
and think hard about the proper course we should take in order to
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