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consideration, as well as discrediting others by insinuation
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Sir, I vote against the amendment moved by Mr Szeto.
MRS, NG (in Cantonese): Sir, for the two reasons I
gune will now comment, I am opposed to the proposed amendment by Mr. Szeto Wah. First, I have participated in three different Pistrict Board elections. I fully support the direct elections, that is, a vote for each resident. I am glad to hear that the Government will introduce directly elected seats in
1991 to replace indirect election. This is a progressive
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1991, residents will have the power to vote to elect their own spokesman.There is no reason why we should keep the indirect
election system, which is a transitional method.^
Moreover, if we have both directly elected and
indirectly elected members in the same Council, it would lead to the double representation problem and the consequences would be
very serious. [Second, for the first direct election to the Rys. Cornett, 10
begco ter seats would be quite sufficient.
I want to repeat one point. Political changes should be evolutionary and should not be too fast in pace.
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MR LAM (in Cantonese):
Sir, I support the proposed
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damage between Legeo and District Board and would punish the image of District Board. Moreover, it would also reduce the voter turn- 33 out rate in the future. Directly elected seats should replace
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Just now we have seen some confrontational comments
and they are getting worse. Within this chamber,
Chamber, we are all well
No comments yet.
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