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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988
** I ASK THAT THE
GOVERNMENT
CONSIDER
PERMITTING ONE URBAN OR BY COUNCILLOR TO SERVE ON EACH DISTRICT BOARD, EITHER BY ELECTION APPOINTMENT.
TT
DIRECTLY
DIRECT BE MADE ΤΟ THE ELECTED
MR CLYDESDALE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT, IF THE EXPERIMENT OF
SHOULD WELL, EARLY PROVISION ELECTIONS IN 1991 WORKED EXTEND THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN 1994 BY INCREASING
FOR COUNCIL IN THE LEGISLATIVE NUMBER OF SEATS PERSONS.
"PERHAPS MORE OF THE SEATS AT THAT TIME OCCUPIED DIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SUGGESTED.
BY APPOINTED
M
PERSONS,
HE
SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN THE PEOPLE
TERRITORY "EVERY MAJOR DISTRICT IN THE DIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBER BY 1994. IN THAT WAY THE VOICE OF WILL BE FULLY REPRESENTED AND WILL BE EFFECTIVELY HEARD.
WHITE PAPER CONCURS WITH PUBLIC OPINION
THE WHITE PAPER ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AS A WHOLE CONCURS THE PREVAILING AND IS BOTH RESPONSIVE WITH PUBLIC OPINION
ITS APPROACH. SITUATION AND PRUDENT IN
TO
DEBATE ON THE
THIS WAS SAID BY THE HON HO SAT-CHU DURING THE WHITE PAPER IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY).
OF MR HO SAID HE HAD ALWAYS HELD THE VIEW THAT THE DEVELOPMENT
BE GRADUAL AND GOVERNMENT IN HONG REPRESENTATIVE
KONG SHOULD)
QUESTION
WITH CONVERGENCE EVOLUTIONARY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE THE BASIC LAW OF THE FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT.
SAID HE
OF
THAT DIRECT COUNCIL AFTER
STAND THE TOOK INTO THE LEGISLATIVE
WITH THIS IN VIEW, HE ELECTIONS SHOULD BE INTRODUCED 1990, AND NOT IN HASTE BEFORE THAT.
MR SEATS,
GRADUALLY,
Но
SAID
IT ΤΟ THE FULL
WAS
AS REGARDS THE NUMBER OF ELECTED
SHOULD BE INCREASED ESSENTIAL THAT THESE EXTENT AFFORDED BY THE BASIC LAW.
THE TREND OF NOTING THAT A DECISION HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE ON
SAID DEVELOPMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM BETWEEN NOW AND 1991, MR HO THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DWELL ON OLD ISSUES.
HE SAID WHAT MEMBERS SHOULD DO NOW WAS TO
AND PREPARE THE THINGS PRACTICAL SIDE OF INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1991.
CONCENTRATE ON THE FOR THE COMMUNITY
THIS
WOULD HELP
ENSURE
THAT THOSE
WHO CANDIDATES GENUINELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF HONG KONG PEOPLE WOULD
ELECTED.
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