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3.
The CPG lost the first phase of the campaign
against the constitutional package:
(a)
The CPG alleged that the package could be
shown to violate the Joint Declaration (JD),
Basic Law (BL) and "secret understandings".
(b)
However,
the
the general public regarded
package as an ingenious device to democratise
Hong Kong without requiring amendment of the
the CPG's initial media barrage
BL, and
failed.
(c) The CPG has recognised that further debate on
the contents of the constitutional package
would
be
to its disadvantage. The CPG has
forbidden its supporters (e.g., Vincent LO and
the
Business and Professionals Federation) to
put forward counter-proposals.
4.
The CPG's withdrawal from substantive debate should
be seen in the following context:
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