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adopted, then it is necessary to consider

where in the

is

legislature the Chief Executive could look

Executive could look for support for

his policies. The benefit of cross-membership between the

executive and the legislature in this connection discussed in a separate paper. But it could be argued that

such support could not be guaranteed unless at least a

proportion of the legislature was selected by the same

electorate as would choose the Chief Executive himself.

9.

A possible solution would be to validate the

membership of the present appointed and official members by

some form of election in order to comply with the

provisions of the Joint Declaration (see paragraph 1 above).

as regards official

(broadly based choice through att

to be used as the

10. One possible way of doing this

members would be to validate their

electoral college, if such a body were

means of choosing the Chief Executive. The Chief Executive

could present a list of his senior officials to the

electoral college for election as full voting members of

the legislature.

11. If it appeared desirable that a component similar to

the appointed members now in the council should continue to

exist in the Special Administrative Region legislature, the

Chief Executive could present them in a list to the

electoral college either separately or in a list together with the officials. The electoral college would through an

electoral process choose the required number of people from the list to fill the designated seats in the legislature.

12. Great care would need to be taken to strike the right

balance between the numbers chosen by the different methods

to avoid allegations that the Chief Executive had in

practice a majority of his own appointees in the

legislature. то avoid this accusation, the total of

official and other members elected by the electoral college

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