burdensome.
124%
difficulties,
Besides these practical political
there is, I think,
a
more
fundamental
problem with the
coalition
approach.
People often speak of the danger
of turning ExCo into a mini LegCo, mainly
about what that would do to
out of concern
EXCO.
I am more concerned about what it
might do to this Council. It would result
in the transfer of political debate from the
open forum of LegCo to the closed council of
ExCo. What kind of democracy seeks to take
political debate away from the
Legislature and shut it up in a confidential
discussion hidden from the eyes of the
open
voters who elect that Legislature?
125.
a coalition
ExCo
In addition,
implies the appointment of some people who
have already been appointed to LegCo. It is
no disrespect to those who have already
served on ExCo with such distinction to say
that this "double appointments" approach
would make a nonsense of our attempts to
strengthen our representative institutions.
126.
Taking account of these arguments,
I have concluded that, at the present stage
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