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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988
THE WHITE PAPER WAS, IN FACT, A STOP SIGN OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
TO TIE
DEVELOPMENT
TO CALL THE WHITE PAPER "THE WAY
ONESELF DECEIVING "OSTRICH POLICY", STEALING A BELL.
Fr
FORWARD' WAS ΤΟ ONE'S BY PLUGGING
FOLLOW EAR
AN WHILE
MUCH
ALONG ATTACHED MR LEE NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALL
BUT THE STRUCTURE.
WHITE PAPER WENT IMPORTANCE TO THE THREE-TIER AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS RESPECT, HE SAID.
TO
BOARD MEMBERS ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO, MORE THAN 50 DISTRICT
AGAINST OMELCO, PROTESTING JOINTLY SUBMITTED A DECLARATION DECISION NOT TO INTRODUCE DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988 AND TO ABOLISH DISTRICT BOARD ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
URBAN
HAD
THE
THE
REMOVAL OF THE INTRODUCTION
THEIR
OF
OPPOSED TO THE WERE COUNCILLORS EX-OFFICIO SEATS ON DISTRICT BOARDS AND ALSO TO INDIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS INTO THE URBAN COUNCIL.
IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
QUITE
THE WHITE PAPER
OF
WERE WERE
VIEWS ON
THAT
A
COUNCILLORS NUMBER DIVERSE AND HE BELIEVED OPPOSED TO SOME INDIVIDUAL ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE WHITE PAPER.
RATE IN LAST WEEK'S MR LEE ALSO SAID THAT THE VOTER TURNOUT
IN EVERY FIVE
WHO VOTERS DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS SHOWED THAT ONE CAST THEIR VOTES IN THE 1985 ELECTIONS HAD SHUNNED THE LATEST POLLS.
PROGRAMME
HE NOTED THAT A CALLER TO A RADIO STATION'S PHONE-IN
HIS VOTE BECAUSE HE HAD INDICATED THAT HE DID NOT TURN OUT TO CAST WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE CONTENTS OF THE WHITE PAPER.
TAKEN
ALTHOUGH THIS KIND OF BOYCOTT MIGHT NOT BE THE SOLE REASON
BE
LIGHTLY AND THE DROP IN VOTER TURNOUT, IT SHOULD NOT GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO SOME SOUL-SEARCHING AND MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BACK THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE, HE SAID.
WHO
FOR
THE
WIN
TURNING TO CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES DURING DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS, STAYED AWAY MR LEE SAID IF VOTERS WITH A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL STANDARD
STAND WERE NOT HAVE A STRONG FROM VOTING WHEREAS THOSE
HELPERS, SOME HUDDLED INTO POLLING STATIONS BY ENTHUSIASTIC CAMPAIGN VOTES MIGHT NOT BE CAST IN A RATIONAL MANNER.
DID
THE MIGHT DETERMINE SUCH ACTIVITIES PARTICULARLY IF THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE WAS LOW,
OF OUTCOME
ELECTIONS,
LOBBYING ACTIVITIES HE THEREFORE SUGGESTED THAT PUBLICITY AND
DAY OF VOTING, AND AT THE POLLING STATJONS SHOULD BE BANNED ON THE
SHOULD THAT ONLY THE CANDIDATES THEMSELVES OR A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE BE PERMITTED TO BE PRESENT.
/ON DIRECT ................