MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994
IN
BEEN. IT MATURITY AND IT WAY
I AM VERY PLEASED THAT ABOUT 270 000 MORE PEOPLE HAVE VOTED
THE LAST THAN IN
DISTRICT BOARD THESE
BOARD ELECTIONS DISTRICT ELECTIONS. THE FIGURE FOR THOSE VOTING ISN'T FAR SHORT OF THE FIGURE FOR THE LAST LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS WHICH IS, I THINK, QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT AND THE FIGURE ALL TOGETHER IS OVER 60 PERCENT HIGHER THAN IN THE LAST DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS. WHAT I THINK STRIKES MANY OF US. LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENED TODAY, IS HOW NORMAL IT'S ALL SHOULDN'T SURPRISE US THAT HONG KONG CAN CARRY THIS OFF WITH
THIS IS A VERY SOPHISTICATED COMMUNITY AND SELF-CONFIDENCE. DOESN'T SURPRISE YOU THAT MORE PEOPLE WANT TO PUT A STAMP ON THE
I DON'T IN WHICH THEIR NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE RUN. NOR IS IT SURPRISING,
BEEN TALKING ABOUT THINK, THAT DURING THE LAST WEEKS, PEOPLE HAVE BREAD AND BUTTER, LIVELIHOOD ISSUES, THE SORT OF ISSUES THAT MATTER SO
BEEN ROOTS. THEY'VE MUCH OF THE GRASS
TALKING ABOUT TRANSPORT,
AFFECT AND ALL THE MATTERS WHICH EDUCATION AND PARKING AND HOUSING F PEOPLE IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE. SO, I REPEAT, A GOOD DAY FOR HONG AND ANOTHER MARK OF HONG KONG'S MATURITY.
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KONG
YET THE THE SAME AS THE 1991
QUESTION: WAS IT WORTH IT TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY IN.. PERCENTAGE
ELECTIONS?
OF
THE VOTER
TURNOUT RATE WAS
THE
THAT
OF PEOPLE GOVERNOR: I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING IS THE TOTAL NUMBER
CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON WHO VOTE. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. YOU
OF TURNOUT WHEN IT SUITS, AND ON PERCENTAGE WHEN IT SUITS. THE TRUTH
PEOPLE то THE MATTER IS THAT WE WERE RIGHT TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE MORE REGISTER. THERE ARE, I THINK, ABOUT 800 000 MORE REGISTERED THAN THERE WERE LAST TIME AT THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS. SO, THE FACT THAT PERCENTAGE TURNOUT IS STILL HIGHER IS AN INDICATION OF THE FACT VERY MANY MORE PEOPLE HAVE TURNED OUT TO VOTE AND I THINK THAT IS
AT LOCAL ELECTION THING. EXCELLENT
EVERYBODY, I THINK, WHO LOOKS RESULTS ANYWHERE, WISHES THAT THE TURNOUT WAS HIGHER STILL BUT I TO SAY THAT THE TURNOUT IN THE ELECTIONS HERE TODAY IS HIGHER THAN THE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE LAST LOCAL
THROUGH WHICH I HAD A ELECTIONS UNITED KINGDOM.
AN
HAVE
TURNOUT
A SUCCESSFUL QUESTION: DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR CRITERIA OF ASSESSING ELECTION IS TOO SOPHISTICATED BY JUST COUNTING THE NUMBER OF RATE?
PEOPLE IN
GOVERNOR: NO, I THINK THAT WHAT MATTERS IS THE NUMBER OF EACH CONSTITUENCY, IN EACH DISTRICT BOARD WHO GET OUT AND VOTE. AND IF EARLIER, THAT ADD THOSE FIGURES TOGETHER, YOU'LL SEE, AS I SAID THE NUMBER OF THOSE VOTED IN THESE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS IS OVER 60 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE NUMBER OF THOSE VOTED IN THE LAST ONES.
WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU QUESTION: REGARDING THE TURNOUT RATE WHICH. WANT ΤΟ CONVEY TO THE CHINESE SIDE WHO WANTS TO DISMANTLE 19977
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IT AFTER
GOVERNOR: I THINK THAT ANY MESSAGES FOR THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG. FACT OF THE MATTER IS, AS I SAID EARLIER, THAT THIS HAS BEEN A DAY IN HONG KONG AND PEOPLE IN HONG KONG HAVE TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY OF OVER INDICATING THE SORT OF GRASS-ROOT ADMINISTRATION THAT THEY WANT THE NEXT FEW YEARS, NOT A THREAT TO ANYBODY, THE SORT OF THINGS YOU'D EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN ANY COMMUNITY AS SOPHISTICATED AS HONG KONG.
THE NORMAL
THAT
/QUESTION: