53.
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
54. This proposal meets the two essential requirements.
would also provide a simple solution, since no new electoral
machinery would be needed.
55. 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 LegCo making twelve in all. Candidates would
not have to be members of the EC, but would have to come
from the relevant sector. The election of these three
candidates in each sector would be by block vote, using a simple majority system. All members of the Election
Committee would then elect 10 of the 12 to become members to
serve on the Legislative Council from among these by simple
majority.
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