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we should remember that we are not talking about introducing direct elections to Hong Kong1 but only about extending an existing electoral practice to this Council. That is to say, we are not talking about a revolutionary innovation but about an evolutionary step.
Of course, the Honourable Member- said it much...
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I now come to paragraph 26, and it reads: Such evolution must also be compatible with a smooth tranfer of
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