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7.
the CPG:
CONTIUCNTIAL
Such a
THE CPG'S GAINS
TEX
strategy would bring considerable gains to
(a)
The CPG
would claim that HKG was committed to
ensuring that, as far as possible, pre-1997
constitutional
with the BL.
developments are compatible
(b)
The
BL'S interpretation would have been
clarified by the NPC, the PRC'S highest
constitutional body, and (in the CPG's view)
HKG would be bound, therefore, to accept its
verdict.
establishment (in particular, Lagco would they?
(c)
The local
Members,
the
civil
service and business of it were brought
leaders) would find it difficult to maintain
support for HKG's constitutional package. TO
do SO would involve deliberate defiance of an
NPC enactment.
in on preemption basis allowing
no
for інк?
(a) CPG officials would be able to claim that the
scope
for negotiation had been removed by the
NPC.
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