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we have the Government's commitment to introduce direct
election. We work hard toluge for direct election.
our efforts have born fruit.
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The system of functional constituencies since inception
has gained popular support from the community.
The only
form of contention is whether the groupings covered by the
aine functional constituencies are in line with the
principle of comprehensiveness. During the debate in this
Council in January, 1985 on the White Paper, I have
called on the administration to include the accountancy profession and the Hung Yee Kuk as additonal
functional constituencies of Legislative Council or to
the take other steps to allocate a statutory seat to Hung Yee Kuk, which was established nearly sy years ago and which has built up a deep rooted image of our New
Territories residents. Therefore, I welcome the provision
of the White Paper to increase two seats for election
by functional constituencies. As one of the seats will be
a representatwe for representing members of the accountancy profession, I
feel that by doing so, the administration has taken heed of
public opinion. Nevertheless, the Government has still not agreed to give a statutory seat in the Legislative Council for a representative of the Hung Yee Kuk. In this regard I feel deeply disappointed. This shows that Government. has overlooked Hung Yee Kuk's previous support to the
Government in its administration of the New Territories
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and the Xuk's even greater contribution in the future. I also consider this as a short coming
a short coming of the system of
representative government.
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Sir, another controversial point of the White Paper is
the Government's decision that in 1991, ter members directly
elected from geographical constituencies will be introduced to take over the ten seats now indirectly elected from the
pistrict Boards. I support this provision.
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