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Sir, for reasons stated in my speech on the main motion yesterday, I made it clear that I am indeed
in support of the proposal in the White Paper, to replace the ten /o
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proposed by Mr. Szeto Wah.
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As early as 1984, political activists e called with one voice for the adoption of direct elections in favour of the Electoral
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Szeto Wah himself very much a leader of that school of thought,
and his statement in forwarding that view is now public record. Subsequent to the actual introduction of the Electoral College system in 1985, considerable criticism was levelled against it.
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In the first half of 1986, and up to July in the same year, a number of the most vocal political groups in Hong Kong including Meeting Point and the Hong Kong Affairs Society, issued public statements advocating the total, abolition of the Electoral College in 1988. The former proposed a Composition Table for 1988, 1991 and 1994, in which it proposed the #lectoral College to be completely replaced by directly elected members, while half of the appointed members were, they suggested, to be retained.
proposed a suggestion for the SAR, LEGO which had no place whatsoever for the Électoral College.
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Now that the Government has decided to adopt this proposition,
the very same bodies and individuals have not only come out strongly
in opposition to this move, but have led off a movement to reject
the White Paper, on the basis that the Electoral College was to be abolished in 1991. What is the logic for this U-turn? what happened to their strongly-felt sentiment in 1986 that the Electoral College must be replaced by direct elections because the former was, they argued, divisive and therefore harmful to the harmony and usefulness
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