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While fielding queations from callers, Mr Bray intained that since the Government hoped to have elected members to Legco by early August next year, various preparations had to be done between now and then and the two-month consultation period for the Orean Faper w sufficient. The Green Paper touched mainly on indirect elections because HR residents had not acquired a habit of direct elections, Also, it me better to continue as far as possible with cousedsuð politice than with adversarial politice which had destablising effects on the community, he added.
One caller, Dr L.K. Ding of the HK Delegation for the Promotion of Democracy, argued that the Grean Paper had failed to look forward to 1997 and therefter. He reiterated that at least one-third of the Legco adera should be directly elected by 1987 because the existing Unofficials could not represent the public. Rowever, Mr Bray intained that the councillors were a very representative cross-section of HK people and that for actions taken by the had been widely supported.
Another caller to the programme, HK Bar Association chairman Renty Litton cast doubt on the concept of elections through functional constituencies, which he said was in fact direct elections with a closed-group franchise and which could only elect closed-group
cand ldates.
Commenting on the role of Exce and Legco Unofficials, one caller suggested that they should play a greater part in the Goverment administration similar to ministers of the cabinet in other countries, while another aller regretted that their views were not always accepted by the authorities.
Yet another caller felt that the public were apathetic tow Tủ
•lections because elected D3 members only had limited areas of responsibilities over matters such as recreation and cleansing, while A caller to Commercial Radio-English's "Aileen Bridgewater Talkshow' maintained that the in reason was the lack of information go the
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