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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28,

1990

HE ALSO SAID THE BRITISH

OMELCO GOVERNMENT, IN REJECTING

THAT IT WOULD NOT BE BOUND CONSENSUS, HAD TOLD THE WHOLE WORLD, FIRST, BY THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND, SECOND, THAT IT ATTACHED LITTLE WEIGHT TO THE ADVICE OF OMELCO.

HE FELT THAT IT DEBATE THE BASIC LAW AS POSSIBLE.

WAS A

EXTREMELY

THAT IMPORTANT WHOLE AND SHOULD DO THIS

LEGCO SHOULD

AS

AS

SOON

THE REST OF THAT IF NO

SAYING THAT SEPARATING THE POLITICAL SYSTEM FROM THE BASIC LAW WAS A DANGEROUS ACT OF SELF-DECEPTION, MR LEE SAID

ECONOMIC AND CIVIL

WERE LITANIES OF

MEANINGLESS POLITICAL STRUCTURE EXISTED TO SAFEGUARD THEM.

FREEDOMS

"IF THE BASIC LAW DOES NOT PROVIDE FOR AND DEMOCRATIC HONG KONG AS PROMISED TO US IN THE

FREEDOM

AND OF SPEECH THEN ITS PROVISIONS FOR

WILL SUFFER

THE

HIGHLY AUTONOMOUS JOINT DECLARATION,

OTHER FUNDAMENTAL THE SAME FATE AS 11 HE SAID.

LAW

CONSENSUS MODEL WAS NOT A

OF

MATTER

RIGHTS WILL HAVE THE SAME VALUE AND THOSE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA,

THE

MR LEE SAID THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OMELCO

IN MODEL

BASIC AND THE POLITICAL QUIBBLING OVER A FEW SEATS.

AND

BE ABLE то DEMOCRATICALLY "UNDER THE BASIC LAW, WE WILL NOT ELECT SO MUCH AS HALF OF THE HONG KONG LEGISLATURE UNTIL 2003

HALF OF THE LEGISLATURE WILL THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT MORE THAN

HE SAID. EVER BE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED THEREAFTER,

LIMITATION THE

ELECTED COMMITTEE,

ELECTION REPRESENTATIVES, WERE PLEDGE THAT THE HKSAR

ON THE NUMBERS OF DEMOCRATICALLY

SO-CALLED OF A MEMBERS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH WHICH BEIJING HOPED TO APPOINT ITS OWN

DECLARATION'S CLEAR VIOLATIONS OF THE JOINT LEGISLATURE SHALL BE CONSTITUTED BY ELECTIONS, HE SAID.

ON THE NUMBER OF CLEAR BREACH OF WHICH KEY POSITIONS

CHINA AND BRITAIN'S AGREEMENT ON A CEILING LEGISLATORS WITH FOREIGN RIGHT OF ABODE WAS ANOTHER THE JOINT DECLARATION, WHICH SPELT OUT IN DETAIL IN THE HKSAR MUST BE HELD ONLY BY CHINESE NATIONALS.

SPLIT-VOTING

ACCORDING TO MR LEE, THE IMPOSITION OF A DIVISIVE SCHEME IN THE BASIC LAW RELATING TO PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS SERVED ONLY ΤΟ FURTHER

DEMOCRATICALLY

LEGISLATORS.

UNDERMINE

THE

INFLUENCE

OF

ELECTED

IS, IS REALLY

WHICH RENDER THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, HE

"THE SPLIT-VOTING SCHEME, ILL-CONCEIVED AS IT UNNECESSARY GIVEN THE OTHER PROVISIONS IN THE BASIC LAW, THE LEGISLATURE QUITE POWERLESS VIS-A-VIS SAID.

申申

ON THE

AUTHORITIES, EXECUTIVE

DECLARATION

PROMISED THAT

EXECUTIVE WOULD EFFECTIVELY

BEIJING GOVERNMENT.

BE

LEE SAID THE JOINT THEY SHOULD BE "ACCOUNTABLE TO THE ALL-POWERFUL CHIEF LEGISLATURE", BUT ACCORDING TO THE BASIC LAW, THE

NO ONE

MR

ACCOUNTABLE

TO

EXCEPT

THE

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