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31%

68%

32%

I must now spend a

time little

to deal with the

first-mentioned survey conducted by CSTEI

whose

representatives

had come to lodge a complaint with the Complaints Division of

Omelco yesterday. Their grievance

caused by the gross

in the Report

was

misrepresentation

of

their

results survey

both

and by some senior

Government servants.

In their survey,

choice

was

given

to

the respondents

to decide which was the

most suitable year for the introduction of direct

elections, SO

was the most

Their

that the respondents could select from 1987, 1988, 1989 and all the way until 1997. The figures showed that 1988 favoured year for the introduction of direct elections. representatives told us that it would be totally wrong all the other percentages for the other years together as the

total percentage against the

introduction

to group

of direct elections

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

asked the question whether

direct elections

Or should

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.

results of this particular survey are properly

When the

understood, they

should no

longer

be used to

support the contention that the

majority of

respondents

in

that

survey

against were

the