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I had previously endorsed your continued presence, Sir, as President of the Council although I believe that in accordance with the terms of the Joint Declaration this position will need to be filled by a speaker elected from among Council members, at latest by 1997. I see no reason to object to the retention of the voting age at 21 years although I had suggested the possible reduction to 18. I continue to be in favour of the preferential elimination.
voting system for functional constituency and electoral college
elections and of the other administrative proposals contained in the White Paper for legislative and municipal council elections. I would have liked to see a somewhat greater expansion of the functional constituency system in 1988, if only by the widening of the constituent membership in existing ones beyond the accountants, the nurses, the midwives, the pharmacists, and the physiotherapists.
But, Sir, where I do part company with the White Paper in questioning the practicability of its recommendations is on the overall composition of the Legislative Council and on the
total lack of any indication or direction as to how the new system will work or how it will progress beyond 1991. In confronting the White Paper on this point, I feel like Alice in Through the Looking Glass Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas, only
I don't know exactly what they are. I accept the logic of awaiting the outcome of the Basic Law drafting effort to avoid any need for
further backtracking or sidestepping during the transition period. But on the other hand, would the same logic not suggest that the changes now proposed for 1991 might also be premature? What happens if the aspirations of the Hong Kong community are for a continuous
Registative Council increase in the number of direct elected. Legee members in the period up to 1997 are not totally hypothetical assumption? While the Basic
Law, on the other hand, retains a fixed minority which is an equally strong possibility if one judges the latest drafting discussions? Should the White Paper not have addressed this potential conflict
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