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Would be politically unrealistic to expect Governor to negotiate with China on his proposals when Hong Kong did not know what these were.
More Directly Elected Seats
Criticism
Answer
Contrary to the Basic Law. Unacceptable.
Believe more directly elected seats would be widely
welcomed. But as Governor has made clear, not the only way to build up democracy, Thus he set out in
his speech proposals in parallel
within the terms of the JD and BL.
on how to do this
Voting Age
Criticism
(unlikely to be criticism)
Answer
Widespread community support for lowering the voting
age. It is 18 in the UK and China. (Lu Ping was reported by Wen Wei Pao of 22 July to have supported lowering the voting age to 18.)
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