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Boards. The other 32 members of the Legislative Council
were either officials (10) or appointed members (22).
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33. The 1984 White Paper also considered the question
of direct elections to the Legislative Council.
The Hong
Kong Government noted that although there was strong
public support for the idea of direct elections,
there was little support for such elections in the
immediate future. They
undertook to hold a review in
1987, before the 1988 elections, to give an opportunity
for further consultation about the development of
representative government, including specifically the
introduction of direct elections.
34. The review duly took place in 1987. The options
were set out in a Green Paper "The 1987 Review of
Developments in Representative Government" published in
May that year. It covered many aspects of representative
government, among them the question of whether, and if so
when, there should be a directly elected element in the
Legislative Council. A Survey Office was set up to
collect and report on public opinion on the Green Paper.
It operated outside the ordinary machinery of government
and without interference from the administration.
independent monitors were appointed to oversee its work
and to ensure that the Office carried out its duties in a
fair and objective way. The Review generated
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considerable public interest. The sounding of public
opinion took many forms and did not rely solely on the
results of individual polls or surveys, though a number