FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1985
SIR EDWARD DELIGHTED AT LEGCO ELECTION SUCCESS
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THE GOVERNOR SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY THAT HE WAS DELIGHTED THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS WERE +SUCH A RESOUNDING SUCCESS+, AND CONGRATULATED ALL CONCERNED WHO WERE
INVOLVED IN IT.
SIR EDWARD CONGRATULATED ALL THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES+, AND EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE TO ALL THE UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WHO HAD PERFORMED A PUBLIC SERVICE BY AGREEING TO STAND FOR ELECTION, ALL THOSE WHO ORGANISED THE ELECTIONS, AS WELL AS THE MEDIA+.
SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AFTER OPENING THE HONG KONG-MACAU FERRY TERMINAL BUILDING, SIR EDWARD TOLD THEM, + IT MUST BE JOLLY HARD FOLLOWING IT RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING THROUGH TO THE EARLY. HOURS OF THIS MORNING, AND I THINK YOU KEPT THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG VERY WELL INFORMED OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, WHAT EVERYBODY WAS SAYING AND HOW THE ELECTION WAS GOING.+
AND, REFERRING TO THE UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES, SIR EDWARD SAID: I HOPE THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING BEFORE, WHEREVER THEY HAVE BEEN SERVING THE COMMUNITY. +
ASKED WHETHER HE THOUGHT THE NEW LEGCO WOULD BE A BALANCED ONE, SIR EDWARD SAID: THINK THE NEW LEGCO IS GOING TO HAVE A VERY WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY REPRESENTED IN IT AND THAT WE HAVE INDEED MADE A STEP TOWARDS MORE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.+
HE DID NOT AGREE, SIR EDWARD SAID, WITH CRITICISM THAT THE COMPOSITION OF THE LEGCO REMAINED ESSENTIALLY THE SAME, WITH MOST OF ITS SEATS BEING TAKEN BY THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
+I DON'T THINK IT IS ONLY THE BUSINESS SECTOR, SIR EDWARD SAID, I THINK IT IS THE PROFESSIONAL SECTOR AND OTHERS FROM SECTORS OUTSIDE THE BUSINESS SECTOR.
BUT THE CHOICE OF THE CANDIDATES ELECTED, SIR EDWARD SAID WAS MADE BY THE ELECTORS. AND, AFTER ALL, THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHOM THE ELECTORS WANTED, WHOM THEY WISHED TO SEE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED, HE SAID.
ASKED ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY OF BRINGING THE 1987 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL REVIEW +A LITTLE BIT EARLIER+, SIR EDWARD SAID. THIS WAS NOT PRACTICABLE.
THE GOVERNOR SAID HE SUSPECTED THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD BE CONTINUING TO COMMENT ON THE ISSUES WHICH WOULD ARISE IN THE 1987 ELECTION THROUGHOUT THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
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