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indirectly elected seats now coming from the electoral college are to be replaced by directly elected seats then it will be

similar to an ancient story in China.

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There is someone who

has monkeys in his house and is getting poor. He has to

reduce the food given to the monkeys.

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He will say: "Would it

fruits in the morning The monkeys-are not

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be possible if I give you three of the and four of the fruits at night time?* happy so he says: "Well, what if I give you four in the morning and three in the evening?", The monkeys become very happy. So I think we really should concentrate on how the legislature is to be formed. If you think in 1997 we should not have any directly elected seats we should at least note that since' 13 appointed members are to be replaced, anyway, what seats should

replace them? If we have functional constituencies, I don't think you can satisfy the needs of everyone in Hong Kong and every trade in Hong Kong.

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The Aurmeton fahi Just this morning, I received a letter coming from

7 in Hong Ker) the HK Licence Secretaries Executives Assee and they

& Association 19 said that they would also like to have a seat in Lesce, So you

the Kijultative Comerí

can see that there will be increasing demands from trades :

have excluded.

I said in a public forum that functional

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constituency is really a very pebulous concept, so you are really in the clouds and actually I didn't use 'nefarious', as reported by a newspaper, because that is close to the meaning of immoral.

so I would like to clarify this.

saying that

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Mr, Sohmen said that he is happy to hear that Mr Szeto

had said, indirectly elected seats include an element of democracy. 28 Well, that will really depend on one thing this is because at 29 least these indirectly elected people will be able to represent

some portion of the community. So when I talk about this, I really do not agree with Mr, Sohmen's idea in the past that we 32 should have more functional constituency seats. I think that

during the transitional period and even after 1997, es we may still need functional constituency seats but really because of 35 very, very special reasons. For example, we would like to keep 36 some talents or we would like to have special interests or groups

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