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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987
ELECTIONS SHOULD NOT BE IMPLEMENTED IN HASTE
THAT DIRECT AND REGARD ΤΟ THE
DR THE HON
(WEDNESDAY) HO KAM-FAI SAID TODAY ELECTION IS A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE FOR HONG KONG'S POLITICAL REFORM SHOULD NOT BE IMPLEMENTED IN HASTE AND WITHOUT PROPER PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES PREVAILING IN HONG KONG.
WHICH AFTER
SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE GREEN PAPER, DR HO NOTED THAT THE BASIC LAW, FRAMEWORK FOR HONG KONG'S POLITICAL STRUCTURE PROMULGATED IN 1990.
THUS
"IT WILL SPECIFY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ELECTION
HAVE AND WILL
SIGNIFICANT FORMATION AND COMPOSITION OF THE LEGISLATURE,
"DURING
DEBATE ON THE WOULD PROVIDE A 1997, WOULD BE
THE
FORM OR
FORMS OF
IMPLICATIONS " HE NOTED.
FOR THE
INCLINED TO REGARD UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, HE SAID HE WAS THE TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS LEADING TO 1990 AS AN INTERIM PERIOD.
THIS SHORT RUN-UP, I PREFER ΤΟ SEE ONLY MINOR, IN ORDER ΤΟ INCREMENTAL CHANGES AT MOST TO OUR GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE,
LEAST DISTURBED, WHICH LEAVE THE PRESENT INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE INSTRUMENTAL
ACHIEVING SOCIAL STABILITY AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, HE SAID.
IN
DR HO ADDED THAT IF REFORMS WERE INTRODUCED HURRIEDLY AND INCOMPATIBLE WITH RECKLESSLY AND WERE FOUND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS TO BE THE PROVISIONS OF THE BASIC LAW, THERE WAS
VIABLE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE BUT TO HAVE THEM WITHDRAWN OR REVERSED IMMEDIATELY.
AND
"IN CASE OF THIS EVENTUALITY, OUR ECONOMY WILL INVARIABLY
SUFFER
DISRUPTIONS FROM TREMENDOUS
OUR CONFIDENCE POLITICAL FUTURE WILL LIKEWISE BE INFLICTED WITH LASTING SAID.
IN OUR
11 DAMAGE, HE
HOWEVER, DR HO BELEIVED THAT A FRANK, RATIONAL
AND DISPASSIONATE EXPRESSION OF LEGISLATIVE
THE COUNCIL'S VIEWS ON IN THE DEBATE SUBJECT OF DIRECT ELECTION
AND OTHER FORUMS WOULD OF THE LOCAL EFFECTIVELY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF DRAWING THE ATTENTION
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE AND AND THE CHINESE MEMBERS OF THE BASIC LAW THE BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTEE
PREFERENCE AND ASPIRATION FERVENTLY CHERISHED IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AFTER 1997.
TO THE
OF DIRECT
HE ALSO REMINDED PROPONENTS
ELECTION THAT DIRECT END IN ITSELF. IN ORDER ELECTION MUST NOT BE SEEN AS AN
FOR THE MAJORITY SPIRIT AND THE EFFECT OF DIRECT ELECTION TO REALISE, A GREAT OF THE POPULACE MUST HAVE ATTAINED A HIGH LEVEL OF POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND MATURITY, DR HO ADDED.
/HE SAID
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