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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987
SURVEY REPORT "NOT WORTH ITS PAPER"
THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT CONTAINED DISTORTIONS
THE HON K. C. CHAN SAID. IT NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
WHICH RENDERED
WITH
WERE
DEBATE ON THE SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT, MR CHAN NOTED THAT SOME 230,000 SIGNATURES IDENTITY CARD NUMBERS VOLUNTARILY SIGNED IN A SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN EXCLUDED.
STEREOTYPE LETTERS THE ON
OTHER
SOME HAND,
70,000 SIGNATORIES THE
WERE INCLUDED, THAT EMPLOYED ORGANISATIONS DISTORTING THE PERCENTAGE OF SUPPORTERS FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS IN HE SAID.
FROM
THUS
1988,
TOO 45 PER
QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY'S
CONTAINED MR CHAN ADDED THAT THE MANY DIFFICULT-TO-UNDERSTAND AND LOADED QUESTIONS WHICH 40 TO CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
"NO MATTER HOW
DILIGENTLY, CONSCIENTIOUSLY
AND METICULOUSLY REPORTS, THE
THE SURVEY OFFICE STAFF AND THE MONITORS COMPILED THEIR RESULT WOULD BE GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT," HE SAID.
IN OUTER
BRITAIN CHINA
CHINA AND 1945,
HELD A
IN MONGOLIA, WHILE
HAD PLEBISCITE
IN EXPERIENCE
THE ON
A 1967, BRITAIN HELD
REFERENDUM HELD IN
HE OBSERVED THAT BOTH USING A REFERENDUM. INDEPENDENCE OF REFERENDUM ON THE GIBRALTAR ISSUE. A MORE RECENT BRITAIN WAS FOR THE ENTRY INTO THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.
HE SAID THAT IN ALL THESE CASES, THE QUESTION ASKED WAS SIMPLE, JUST APPROVAL OR REJECTION.
HE ADDED THAT ALTHOUGH REFERENDUM WAS NOT A DIRTY WORD, IT RESISTED IN THE STRONGEST TERMS BY BOTH BRITAIN AND CHINA.
WAS
WITH
REALISTIC
ASKING FOR A REFERENDUM AT THIS TIME WOULD BE NEGOTIATING
COULD EASILY FORECAST THE A TIGER FOR ITS SKIN, AND ONE OUTCOME, HE SAID,
MR CHAN REITERATED THAT ALTHOUGH HE WAS HE STILL SUPPORTED DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988.
AN APPOINTED
MEMBER,
AND HONG PEOPLE WOULD THEIR
HE SAID THAT IF A BUFFER BETWEEN THE BORDER OF CHINA KONG WAS NOT ESTABLISHED BY DIRECT ELECTIONS SO THAT HONG KONG WOULD ADMINISTER HONG KONG, THE CONFIDENCE OF HONG KONG PEOPLE SUFFER AND THOSE WHO WERE YET INDECISIVE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE UP MIND AND VOTE WITH THEIR FEET.
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