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Question: What do you say to the cynics who claim these elections are meaningless because LegCo won't last beyond.... is selected?
Governor: You could have said exactly the same thing about the District Board elections and the Municipal Council elections given some of the threats that have been made. But in those elections in the first 50 per cent more people voted than in the previous one and the other's 40 per cent more people voted than the previous elections. These elections matter. Hong Kong was promised by China and Britain that a steady process of democratisation would underpin all the guarantees that were made about Hong Kong's future as an open, plural, prosperous, free society. And these elections are part of that process. Nobody doubts, nobody disputes they are fair and open. I very much hope that every body will take account of the result and will dedicate themselves to working with the Legislative Council. I hope that threats of dismantling the Legislative Council can be put on one side. If that were to happen, then those who did it would have to explain themselves not just to the people of Hong Kong which is the most important thing, but to the international community. I think it would be a very curious way of starting off Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong by dismantling the assembly which represents the opinions of Hong Kong people.
Question: How about a very low turnout rate for the new functional constituencies because a recent study found that voters, many of them do not know about the candidates?
Governor: In nine of the old functional constituencies, there's been no turnout at all because there hasn't been an election. I don't criticise the candidates. But there's no election at all. I prefer to see constituencies where there is an election, where people do put their opinions against one another and I'll be wanting to compare the turnout, the number of people voting in the functional constituencies this time with the number of people who voted in the functional constituencies last time. There are about 15 times as many people registered to vote in the functional constituencies as happened last time. I think that's a very good thing. As for knowing about your candidates, we are doing some advertising towards the end of this week and everybody who goes into a polling station as you will have seen if they don't know their candidate will be able to open a brochure in front of them which will give them all the electoral leaflets of their candidates in their own functional constituencies so they can check up on the identity of their functional constituency candidates and they'll doubtless make a choice between them.
Question: There are more and more pregnant women coming from China to give births in Hong Kong, what do you think the government can do to solve this problem?