Election Committee
57.
Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government
consider that if the election of ten members of the Legislative
Council by an Election Committee is to be fair, open and
acceptable to the people of Hong Kong, two essential
requirements will need to be satisfied:
58.
That members of the Election Committee should be elected
fairly and openly in Hong Kong.
The arrangements for the elections inside the Election Committee should themselves be open and fair.
The Governor's proposal in October 1992 was that the
Election Committee should draw all or most of its members from
the directly-elected District Boards; and that the Election
Committee should be able to vote for any qualified candidate,
not just for members of the Election Committee.
It
59. This proposal meets the two essential requirements.
would also provide a simple solution, since no new electoral machinery would be needed.
60.
The Chinese side's proposal (tabled in Round 7 of the
talks and later clarified, in response to repeated questions
from the British side, in Round 14) was that:
The composition and ratio of the Election Committee should follow precisely the four-sector model set out in paragraph 2 of Annex 1 of the Basic Law, but the size of the Committee
should be about 600, not 800 as in paragraph 2 of Annex 1.
The voting method would be that each of the four sectors
would elect three candidates for election by the Election
Committee to Legislative Council making twelve in all.
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