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VISIT TO HONG KONG, 22-27 JUNE
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During this visit to Hong Kong, I focussed primarily on constitutional issues, in particular those relating to the
1995 Legislative Council elections. Therefore, the people I had asked to see were mostly those who take a professional interest in such matters (officials from the Constitutional Affairs Branch; LegCo members; academic political scientists; journalists/political commentators). conversations naturally spread out into more general political matters. I also sat through the unprecedentedly long LegCo session last Wednesday, which debated
Jimmy McGregor's motion on the OMELCO consensus. An instructive experience, which gave me the chance to see most of the LegCo members present in eloquent action. For a less rarefied view of things I was given lunch by the District Board of Mong Kok, a fairly run down, crime-ridden area of
West Kowloon.
2. I propose to confine this report to a synthesised account of the main views and impressions I encountered, and to deal in other ways with the detailed material I was given: on voting systems, functional constituencies, election committee formation and public opinion surveys.
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