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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1987

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CONCLUDES

"AS THE PUBLIC CAN SEE, WE HAVE LIVELY DEBATES WHICH WITH MOST MEMBERS RECOGNISING THAT THE MAJORITY RULES," SHE NOTED.

DR IP POINTED OUT THAT REPRESENTATIVENESS WAS ONLY ONE OF IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF ELECTION TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

BALANCE

ALSO

"A

MUST

BE SORT CONSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION, TRACK RECORD, AND CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK AND ANSWERABILITY PEQE," SHE SAID.

FOR

MANY

EXPERTISE, ABILITY, RESPECT FROM ONE'S PEERS, TO A WORKABLE NUMBER OF

DR IP SAID SHE WOULD ONLY CONSIDER SUPPORTING DIRECT UN THREE PROVISOS.

ELECTIONS

IF

ONLY A SMALL PROPORTION OF THE FIRSTLY, IT SHOULD PRODUCE LEATIVE MEMBERS, SECONDLY, IT SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AFTER 1988

CANDIDATES THIS WAS ALSO THE DIRECTION OF THE BASIC LAW, AND THIRDLY,

WHICH COULD ASSESS WERE NOMINATED FOR ELECTION BY A DEFINITIVE BODY THE QUALITIES OF THE CANDIDATE.

1

SAW THE DR IP SAID SHE CONS LIDATION AND FINE TUNING OF ELEC ORAL COLLEGES WHILE PERHAPS ELECTION TO COME.

ΤΟ

PHASE

1988

BE A

OF ELECTIONS THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND PREPARING THE GROUNDS FOR DIRECT

ITS ENTIRETY AS SHE SAID HER STANCE NOW REMAINED THE SAME IN WHEN SHE SPOKE IN THE 1985 DEBATE ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

AND FINE STREAMLINING

OF TUNING

THE IN 1985, SHE SPOKE ON

OF LEGISLATIVE MEMBERS TO VARIOUS ELECTIONS, INCREASING THE NUMBER

NUMBER BETWEEN 60 TO 70 IN NUMBER AS A FINAL OBJECTIVE, INCREASING THE OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTORATE COLLEGES IN THE EXPENSE OF OF OFFICIAL MEMBERS, AND THE APPOINTED MEMBERS, KEEPING THE NUMBER CRETING FOUR YEAR LEGISLATIVE TERMS.

SHE HAD ALSO POINTED OUT THE NEED TO STANDARDIZE THE METHOD

AND TO INCLUDE PROFESSIONS EBETION FROM FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES

AS THE ACCOUNTANTS, DENTISTS AND PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION.

S

OF

ITS ADVANTAGES OF FINALLY, SHE SAID STAGGERING ELECTIONS HAD ONTINUITY, BUT SUCH ADVANTAGES WOULD BE OFFSET BY THE MAGNIMOSITY "REFWORK IF DONE ANY SHORTER THAN TWO YEARS APART.

OF

AS

IN

THE

SHE

LIKE THAT THE URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS SHOULD BE MADE MORE

REMAIN SHOULD AND THAT THE GOVERNOR COUNCIL; THE REGIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, UNTIL THE MAJOR CHANGES CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL HAD STABILISED SHORTLY PRIOR TO 1997,

ADDED.

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