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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987
"AFTER SEATS ARE WON, SUCH ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES COULD NOT AND WHILE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO то PAY
DEVOTE THE TIME THEIR ORIGINAL JOBS REQUIRIE OF THEM, WOULD STILL RECEIVE THE SAME PAY FOR THE WORK THEY DO, THEIR SENIORS WOULD HAVE TO FIND OTHER FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR THEIR SUBSTITUTES.
TO
PAY
MORE.
THIS IS
AN
HAVE THE TAXPAYERS "IN THE END, ISSUE THAT GOVERNMENT MUST ADDRESS FAIRLY AND METICULOUSLY.
MRS CHOW
SAID
IT
WOULD BE
MISLEADING TO
ADVOCATE DIRECT
ELECTIONS AS THE BASIS FOR A WESTERN STYLE DEMOCRACY HERE.
AND "ELSEWHERE, WHERE PARTY POLITICS IN EFFECT AIMS TO CONTROL
IN ELECTIONS, THE FINAL INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF THE VOTING PUBLIC
AND A GOVERNMENT,
WHEN ONE PARTY GOAL FOR THE PARTIES IS TO FORM
TO INDERMINE SUCEEDS TO DO THIS, IT IS THE BUSINES OF THE OPPOSITION AND EVENTUALLY DISPLACE THE RULING PARTY.
"IN SUCH A SITUATION, THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES FALL INTO TWO OF CATEGORIES, THOSE IN
AND THOSE OUTISDE THE ADMINISTRATION,
BY AND THEIR
LOGICALLY DICTATED GOVERNMENT, RELATIVE POSITIONS,'
BEHAVIOUR
IS
THE IR
POLITICS AS SUCH. IN HONG KONG, SHE SAID, THERE WAS NO PARTY
BOUND BY PARTY PLATFORM AND FLECTED REPRESENTATIVES HERE WERE NOT DISCIPLINE, AND THEY WERE HELD TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENCIES
ARRIVING COMMON INTERESTS ENVIRONMENTS OR PROFESIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUNDS.
FROM COMMON
GEOGRAPHICAL
BY
AND SOCIAL
"BETWEEN THEM THERE IS NO COMMON GROUND EXCEPT WHAT MAY DEVELOP PARTICULARLY CONTROVERSIAL
FROM TIME TO TIME IN RELATION TO ISSUES, AND SENSATIONAL ONES THAT NO ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE CAN AFFORD TO BE
OUT IN ORDER LEFT CONSTITUENCIES.
THAT
THEY
ARE SEEN
GIVING TO
TO BE
SERVING
THEIR
PAYING THE PRICE OF
"ARE WE NOT THEN UNNECESSARILY CONFRONTATIONARY POLITICS WITHOUT THE REMOTEST POSSIBILITY OF REAPING
ARE WE NOT
OUR ELECTED THE BENEFITS?
ARE WE AS RIGHTS WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES? SACRIFICE THE PRAGMATIC JUDGMENT OF WHAT IS IN FOR WHAT IS POPULAR TO THE MORE VOCAL SECTORS, AND CAN WE PRICE?"
REPRESENTATIVES A COMMUNITY LIKELY TO OUR OVERALL INTEREST AFFORD THE
ADVENT OF MRS CHOW SAID NO DOUBT SOME WOULD SAY THAT WITH THE
AUTONOMY, THERE MUST THE S.A.R. GOVERNMENT, AND WITH THE PROMISE OF
PUT BE CHANNELS OF PARTICIPATION FOR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES THERE TO THE PUBLIC VIEWS FORWARD AND TO INFLUENCE DECISIONS.
"IN OTHER
THEY ARE
ΤΟ
AND SERVE AS
ACCOUNTABILITY TO
CHECKS
WORDS,
THERE BALANCES TO THE SYSTEM, AND TO ENSURE OPENNESS AND THE PUBLIC.
"I AGREE,