TNAG-1726-FCO40-2439-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 73

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meant by a system of government that is familiar

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We have official members and appointed members and it is something that we are familiar with, and yet there

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election, and therefore the sooner we start to have

election and have direct election the better it will be.

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And in this way Hong Kong will have a longer period to adjust

itself to the new system. If we keep jogging at the same

spot then we will be losing an opportunity to gain experience and then will come the day when we have the inevitable changes and it is impossible for us to make evolutionary

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Before 1997, there will be three more elections to the Legislative Council. Now we have official members and appointed members and they total 32. In 1997, there should be none and if we use simple arithmetic, to work out the speed

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the White Paper only decided that it should be reduced by two. So, what sort of gradual progress do you call this?

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Regarding direct elections, the repeated argument is'gradual progress' and yet when you talk about official members and appointed members, we no longer mention the same

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propresentise point and, "Therefore, this is just like what is said in the Book of Mencius where we have the hypocritical Shing Wah (?) and He talks about lamenting the cow inside

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^ Government has concluded that it would not be right to make such a major constitutional change in 1988 given that opinions in the community on the issue are so clearly divided. In a diversified society, divergent views are natural. We have a saying: 'Even a most just person has an enemy'. If we say that something should be rejected simply because of diversed views then no views will be accepted at all. We will

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