PRESS COMMENTARIES BY INDEPENDENT PAPERS WERE ALSO GENERALLY CRITICAL OF THE SELECTION PROCEDURES. THE LEFT-WING PAPERS, PREDICTABLY, SKIRTED OVER THE ISSUE.
8. AGAINST THE ABOVE BACKGROUND, THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MET AGAIN ON 11 DECEMBER. PRIOR TO THE MEETING, SOME HAD EXPECTED THAT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WOULD DISCUSS THE SELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS. ALTHOUGH IT TURNED OUT THAT THERE WAS A RE-ELECTION AT THIS MEETING, THE ELECTION RESULTS REMAINED UNCHANGED. IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING RE-ELECTION EACH OF THE SEVEN OFFICE BEARERS WAS NOMINATED, PROPOSED AND SECONDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH FORMAL ELECTION PROCEDURES. IN THE ELECTION PROCESS, T.S. LO, WONG PO-YAN, LOUIS CHA,
KO SIU-WAH AND DENIS CHANG WERE ALSO NOMINATED BUT ALL OF THEM DECLINED THE NOMINATION. EIGHTEEN OF THE COMMITTEE'S 19 MEMBERS VOTED FOR ALL SEVEN OFFICE BEARERS: DENIS CHANG WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO ABSTAINED FROM VOTING.
9. AFTER THE MEETING, JUSTICE T.L. YANG, A BLCC VICE-CHAIRMAN, .EXPLAINED THAT RE-ELECTION WAS NECESSARY BECAUSE THE LAST MEETING ON 6 DECEMBER HAD CONTRAVENED SECTION 13 OF THE BLCC CONSTITUTION, VIZ. MEMBERS SHOULE BE GIVEN SEVEN DAYS' NOTCE OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, AND THUS THE DECISIONS REACHED THEREIN WEPE INVALID. ALTHOUGH MANY SAW THIS EXPLANATION AS A MERE EXCUSE TO FEND OFF FURTHER CRITICISM, THE RE-ELECTION WAS GENERALLY WELCOMED AMONGST THE FORMER CRITICS. THE LEFT-WING PAPERS, PREDICTABLY, HAILED THE MOVE AND PRAISED THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR BEING RECEPTIVE TO PUBLIC OPINION.
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