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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988

** I ASK THAT THE

GOVERNMENT

CONSIDER

PERMITTING ONE URBAN OR BY COUNCILLOR TO SERVE ON EACH DISTRICT BOARD, EITHER BY ELECTION APPOINTMENT.

TT

DIRECTLY

DIRECT BE MADE ΤΟ THE ELECTED

MR CLYDESDALE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT, IF THE EXPERIMENT OF

SHOULD WELL, EARLY PROVISION ELECTIONS IN 1991 WORKED EXTEND THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN 1994 BY INCREASING

FOR COUNCIL IN THE LEGISLATIVE NUMBER OF SEATS PERSONS.

"PERHAPS MORE OF THE SEATS AT THAT TIME OCCUPIED DIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SUGGESTED.

BY APPOINTED

M

PERSONS,

HE

SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN THE PEOPLE

TERRITORY "EVERY MAJOR DISTRICT IN THE DIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBER BY 1994. IN THAT WAY THE VOICE OF WILL BE FULLY REPRESENTED AND WILL BE EFFECTIVELY HEARD.

WHITE PAPER CONCURS WITH PUBLIC OPINION

THE WHITE PAPER ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AS A WHOLE CONCURS THE PREVAILING AND IS BOTH RESPONSIVE WITH PUBLIC OPINION

ITS APPROACH. SITUATION AND PRUDENT IN

TO

DEBATE ON THE

THIS WAS SAID BY THE HON HO SAT-CHU DURING THE WHITE PAPER IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY).

OF MR HO SAID HE HAD ALWAYS HELD THE VIEW THAT THE DEVELOPMENT

BE GRADUAL AND GOVERNMENT IN HONG REPRESENTATIVE

KONG SHOULD)

QUESTION

WITH CONVERGENCE EVOLUTIONARY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE THE BASIC LAW OF THE FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT.

SAID HE

OF

THAT DIRECT COUNCIL AFTER

STAND THE TOOK INTO THE LEGISLATIVE

WITH THIS IN VIEW, HE ELECTIONS SHOULD BE INTRODUCED 1990, AND NOT IN HASTE BEFORE THAT.

MR SEATS,

GRADUALLY,

Но

SAID

IT ΤΟ THE FULL

WAS

AS REGARDS THE NUMBER OF ELECTED

SHOULD BE INCREASED ESSENTIAL THAT THESE EXTENT AFFORDED BY THE BASIC LAW.

THE TREND OF NOTING THAT A DECISION HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE ON

SAID DEVELOPMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM BETWEEN NOW AND 1991, MR HO THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DWELL ON OLD ISSUES.

HE SAID WHAT MEMBERS SHOULD DO NOW WAS TO

AND PREPARE THE THINGS PRACTICAL SIDE OF INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1991.

CONCENTRATE ON THE FOR THE COMMUNITY

THIS

WOULD HELP

ENSURE

THAT THOSE

WHO CANDIDATES GENUINELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF HONG KONG PEOPLE WOULD

ELECTED.

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BE