members of the District Boards, Municipal Councils and the Heung
Yee Kuk. They made clear that for the reasons noted above, it
would not be appropriate for members of the 1991 Legislative
Council, or Hong Kong representatives of the NPC and CPPCC to
serve on the Election Committee simply by virtue of their
membership of these bodies. During Round 14, in another effort
to narrow the gap, the British side confirmed that NPC and CPPCC
representatives would be free to stand for election to the Election Committee; and accepted the Chinese proposal that the
size of the 1995 Election Committee should be about 600, as part
of an overall package deal.
60. On voting method, the British side proposed that the
Functional Constituencies would elect the first three sectors by
the block-vote method, ie each Functional Constituency elector
would have as many votes as the number of members to be returned
by that Functional Constituency. Elections within the Election
Committee would use the single transferable vote method. Any
registered voter who was eligible to serve as a LegCo member
would be eligible for election by the Election Committee
provided he or she secured at least five nominations by Election
Committee members.
61. In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong
Government, this revised proposal, although less simple than
the Governor's original proposal, would meet the essential requirements by ensuring that the Election Committee would be
elected by people who had been elected fairly and openly in Hong Kong, through either the functional constituencies or the
District Boards, and that the elections inside the Election
Committee would take place in an open and fair manner.
Functional Constituencies
62.
The Hong Kong Government's 1988 White Paper defined
functional constituencies as representing economic and
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