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citizens at large can be trusted in their
judgement in selecting talented and virtuous
persons to be their representatives and that direct elections can raise the civic awareness of
the citizens. It is noted that direct elections
have been practised in may countries and even in
the Urban Council of Hong Kong and so far there has been no incident of instability reported. They
further argue that there is nothing wrong with
the emergence of political parties.
(b) They question the advisability of the proposal of
selecting members by functional constituencies.
They also express doubt on whether functional groups can be properly defined. They are worried that the representatives selected in this way will work for the interests of their own groups, thus neglecting their responsibility to the
people as a whole.
Accompanying these two organizations to the UMELCO
Office were the Hong Kong Storehouses and Transportation Staff
Association and the Hong Kong and Kowloon Electronics Industry
Employees' General Union. All these four organizations
requested that the consultation period be extended to four
months. They did not believe that the people of Hong Kong who
had always lived on their own effort would request the
Government for "free lunch".
(4)
Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students, Hong Kong Catholic Youth Council and Centre for the Progress of
Peoples
(a) The first aim of the Green Paper could not be
achieved by indirect elections. It is only
through direct elections that candidates will
have to win the support of the people with their
election platform. This ensures reasonable
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