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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1990
DECLARATION THAT THE MEAN
MRS TU POINTED OUT THAT THE PROBLEM WITH THE JOINT WAS THAT WHEN IT WAS SIGNED FIVE YEARS AGO, NO ONE REALISED WORDS "THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE CONSTITUTED BY ELECTION" DID NOT
ELECTION, ELECTION, DEMOCRATIC
BUT ONLY PARTIAL DIRECT INDIRECT ELECTION, AND EVEN SOME SELECTION.
"THE BLAME FOR THIS PUBLIC MISUNDERSTANDING RESTS NOT CHINA BUT ON BRITAIN, SHE SAID.
"
HAD
MAINLY
ONLY ON
RESISTED DEMOCRACY FOR SHE SAID THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
EVER SINCE BRITAIN REALISED HONG KONG FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, AND
BEEN INTRODUCING A THE COLONIAL SYSTEM WAS COMING TO AN END, IT HAD SYSTEM OF INDIRECT ELECTION INSTEAD OF DIRECT ELECTION.
OF
"CHINA HAS COTTONED ON TO THIS IDEA, AND NOW WE HAVE A KIND
SHE SAID. MISSHAPEN OFFSPRING CONCEIVED BY THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS,
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NOT TAKE RESTORING
A PITY THAT CHINA DID MRS TU CONSIDERED IT
HONG KONG'S FEARS AND OPPORTUNITY OF ALLAYING CONFIDENCE BY ADOPTING A FOUR-PHASE PATH TO DEMOCRACY AS OMELCO AND OTHER GROUPS.
THE
ITS
PROPOSED
BY
NOTHING TO CLING
NOW THAT BRITAIN AND CHINA HAD LEFT US WITH TO IN OUR DILEMMA, WE MUST STAND FIRM AND UNITED IN SECURING FUTURE, COME WHAT MAY, SHE CONCLUDED.
OUR OWN
TIME TO DISCUSS ELECTORAL SYSTEM FOR 1991
* * * *
HAVE
IS
THE ABSTRACT DRAFT BASIC LAW THE TIME OF ARGUING ABOUT
THE TO FACE
REALITY THAT THE ABOUT TO PASS AS WE
NATIONAL THE BASIC LAW SHORTLY, THE HON PEOPLE'S CONGRESS WILL PROMULGATE PETER H.Y. WONG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY).
THE TIME HAD NOW COME TO DISCUSS AND DECIDE SYSTEM FOR 1991, HE ADDED.
ON THE ELECTORAL
POLITICAL
SYSTEM, WE MUST WORK HARD TO ALLOW US TO CONTINUE CHANGES THAT MUST
SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE FUTURE MR WONG SAID: "IN THE INTEREST OF HONG KONG, CONSTRUCT A TRULY DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM THAT WILL WITH OUR LIFE STYLES AND YET BE RESPONSIVE TO THE INEVITABLY COME, HE SAID.
"
IN WORKING OUT THE NEW POLITICAL SYSTEM, MR WONG SAID IT WOULD ESPECIALLY THOSE MINORITY THE FUNCTIONAL
BE WRONG TO DENY MINORITY GROUPS A VOICE,
BE GROUPS WHOSE INTERESTS WOULD NOT CONSTITUENCIES.
BY REPRESENTED
/"AT THE
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