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I do not see the need for any form of extraneous
Executive Advisory Council (FH) as proposed in
an article which appeared in the December 1985 issue of the
monthly magazine "The Mirror".
Such an Advisory Council would inhibit and reduce
the close co-operation and co-ordination that must exist
between the Executive and Legislative Councils, and in turn
make for less efficiency, less productivity and will loosen
control over the Government bureaucratic machinery, which
today plays such an essential part in Hong Kong's economic
success.
Far better would it be for those community leaders
who would comprise such proposed Advisory Council to use
their influence and their energies in ensuring that the right
candidates are put forward and supported in the electoral
colleges, functional constituencies and the regional directly
elected constituencies. They should not constitute an organ
of power but might perhaps form a special electoral college
to elect one or two representatives to the Legislative
Council.
An element of directly elected seats for regional
constituencies in the Legislative Council is required if Hong
Kong people are to have full confidence in and to perceive
that their voices are heard in the decision making processes
of their own legislature. This was one of the points which I
raised with Mr. Ji Peng-fei when I had an exchange of views
with him in Beijing two weeks before his visit to Hong Kong.
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