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proposed,
voting
right is
to be given to
office-bearers of the unions,
the electorate
size will still add up to only 2,000 or so.
There would be great difficulties in justifying
the community that such a very small group of
electors should be given the right to elect
three [or more] LegCo members.
to
Q7
The British side's
proposed
employees' FCs will in
effect give one FC vote to each member of the working
This is a roundabout way to create
population.
additional directly elected seats.
A7
FCs
Proposals fully meet Chinese concern, i.e. that
We are
should be organization based.
proposing that electorate of the employees' FCs
should comprise members of the relevant
registered trade unions; not the entire working
population.
(If Chinese side
argue that all workers could
join one or the other trade unions, thereby
becoming FC electors:] Even if this were to
happen (and this would be rather unlikely),
it
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