TNAG-1726-FCO40-2439-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 166

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MR. ANDREW WONG (in Cantonese) :

I have made most of my views known during the debate

on the amendment motion myself except that

whi say

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ance with MR. Lee Yu-te and Mr. Tai and one other Member

I do not wish to repeat

Sir,

it was said that, if we replace indirect elections with direct elections, we can have the pistrict Boards as nominating agencies but this is not geceptable,

lad we dy have to

Romin make cominal because We should allow nominations by allong

This is true of all democratic

as there are ten people..

countries.

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We do not have

warry

to be afraid that

sweet if there we selost but the process

we found in this

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me people are not sure of who to

will take

ke itself forward naturally,

the debate, In this recent election that many people had

been elected ipso facto. But, on the whole, some

Members feel that the White Paper is not related to

distist board the drop in turnout for the DB elections. I think

the th mon't hate they are. In 1982, was rather high because of the

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Lopene high hopes. In 1985, again they were very high because

1990 the White Paper in 1984 encouraged a lot of participation a

E because it introduced indirect elections this Council.

And in 1985, the official Members were abolished in

This expleumed the

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it was new and people ha

District Boards. No merel o££icial Members and that

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I feel that

the lower turnout this time round is related to a degree

to the White Paper, especially the abolition of the

electoral college in the Winite faper.

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and if you, Sir,

embarrassing in some cases.

Concerning other parts of the White

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Paper, I would like to say something out of due respect, but they are certainly points to be, considered,

Legislatie Conncil is, the relationship between the begisature and the

Executive

These two are completely different organisations

as Lovener of Hong Land and

head of both, it would be rather

So perhaps what we can