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ensure that direct elections to the future legislature have been
incorporated in the Basic Law, will it be feasible for the Legislative Council to have them from 1991 onwards. I would urge the people of Hong Kong to study the draft Basic Law and make their views known to China if they want to keep their present lifestyle and push for greater democracy, stability and prosperity. Even though the White Paper is virtually a document to mark time
pending the adoption of the Basic Law by the National People's
Congress, I must express surprise at the conservative proposal that there should be only ten directlyfelected seats in 1991 to replace the pistrict Board Electoral College seats. In terms of population, the District Board Electoral College seats are too disproportionately divided; I would have thought that the minimum number of directly elected seats to start off with should be 12, twelvey in the proportion of one elected seat for about 500,000 population. ||Many District Boards are unhappy that the Electoral College seats will be taken away from them in 1991, does this foreshadow that the Electoral College system will be replaced by a Grand Electoral College? || What would be the composition of a Grand Electoral College, and in which way would it be more representative and more democratic in actual practice? or will the Grand Electoral College become a system of managed voting that will not give Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy promised it under the terms of the Joint Declaration? will further consideration be given to expanding the base of the Electoral College system, so that while some Electoral College seats are reserved for ¤istrict Boards to return members to the Legislative Council although reduced in number, other Electoral College seats would be allocated to ferritory-wide groups including advisory groups, non-government organisations? As regards the functional constituencies, I am surprised that it was not thought fit to
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expand the Education Constituency to include an additional seat for the tertiary level. Sir, several crucial questions to be
addressed during the Basic Law consultation period by the public and by the OMELCO Constitutional Development Panel are: what should be the minimum proportion of directly elected seats in