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Omelco yesterday.

misrepresentation

Government servants.

the

I must now s pend a little time to deal with the

first-mentioned survey conducted by CSTEI whose representatives

~had come to lodge a complaint with the Complaints Division of

Their grievance was caused by the' gross

of their survey results both in the Report

and by some senior

In their survey, a

choice was given to the respondents to decide which was

most suitable year for the introduction of direct elections, SO

that the respondents could select from 1987, 1988, 1989 and all

the way until 1997. The figures showed that 1988 was the most

favoured year for the introduction of direct elections. Their

representatives told us that it would be totally wrong to group

all the other percentages for the other years together as

total percentage against the introduction of direct elections

in 1988. Although the respondents in this survey had not been

asked the question whether direct elections should or should

not be introduced in 1988, the results showed very clearly that

of all the people who wanted to see direct elections introduced

in Hong Kong, the support for 1988 was the greatest. When the

results of this particular survey are properly understood, they

should no longer be used to support the contention that the

majority of respondents

in that

survey

were against

the

the