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CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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157.
One year
of proposals for
ago, I announced in this Council a number
constitutional
development. These fell
into two groups. The first group of proposals was designed
to strengthen the effectiveness of our executive-led
to this Legislative
Government
Council.
and
its
accountability
I proposed that to enable the Executive and
Council each to play their proper roles, the
Legislative
non-official membership of the two bodies should, for the
This has now been achieved.
I
time being, be separate.
proposed a new non-party political EXCO, and we now have
that too. I proposed last year that the Governor should be
replaced as president of Legco by an elected President.
You, Mr President, then took office and I am now answerable
to this Council as head of the Executive.
158.
I also proposed that the Government should work
with Members of this Council to develop new arrangements for
your own administration and support facilities.
Much work
has been done on that, and I am glad that a new Legco office
will soon be established.
proposals, I proposed a
the Administration could
Finally, in this first set of
Government-LegCo Committee, where
discuss with Members of this
Council the handling of the Administration's legislative and
financial programmes.
It
is a pity that Members have not
yet been able to decide how to take this idea forward. Ι
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