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that China and Britain have reached mutual
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I am most surprised that the
present Electoral Colleges are
Colleges are going to be replaced
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by seats directly elected from ten district-based
constituencies. The White Paper suggests that
there would be double representation in the Legislative
Council. It is not necessarily so, provided
there is different method in drawing up constituency
After all, we have directly elected
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Members elected from DB Xembers in our Municipal Councils now. District Board
based elections and direct elections to the Legislative Council should be seen as two systems of geographical
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A Member from an electoral College
and a District-based constituency, say, the New Territories, has different groups of people to be responsible to and also different scopes of pistrict-
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related matters to be contended with. representation cannot be an excuse to displace lectora Colleges.
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The introduction of Electoral
College to Legislative Council election in 1985 provided a direct link between District Boards and h Legislative Council. Precisely it opens up the
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