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of these delegates.
of
The Governor said that inclusion
elected NPC/CPPCC delegates conformed with the
basic principle for forming the EC and could be used
bargaining chip in
as
a
Chinese.
our
with discussion
the
1995 LegCo: System of Function Constituencies
(Paper No. 17/92)
9.
workers/welfare
service FC.
by
In response a the question from the Governor, SCA said that it remained part of the proposal that measures should be introduced to plug loopholes in the
existing electoral arrangements as well as to widen the franchise of some FCs such as replacing corporate
voters with company directors and having social agency heads as voters in the social The Governor said that he was attracted option (c) in the paper (i.e. allocating the 9 new FC seats according to occupational groups). CS said
that he found the concept of using occupational groups
to form FCS weird against the background of the
existing FCS which represented industries and professions. He thought that option (a) (i.e. basing the electorate of the 9 new FCs on major industries)
was a more sensible arrangement. SCA observed that under both options (a) and (c), every economically active person would have a vote. Head/CPU said that
there would be serious discrepancies on the weight of
votes between the existing FCs and the 9 completely
democratic new FCS. He would therefore prefer option
(b) (i.e. abolishing existing FCs, except for MCs and
Heung Yee Kuk and having FCS based on the 27 occupational groups) which represented a maximum push for democracy. The meeting also noted that there was
-insurmountable practical difficulty
no
for the
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