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believe that the postponement means a mistake on the part of
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been was prepared 287 and in' the end we have missed the
opportunity of having direct elections in 1988.
With such remarks, I object to the amended motion
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MR. ANDREW WONG (in Cantonese):
Sir, regarding
the amendment to the motion, I do agree with Mr, Martin Lee and M Conrad Lam and Mr. Szeto Wah. I have said before and I
still maintain that direct election is a better form of election and we should have it as soon as possible. I do not wish to repeat myself; I only want to talk about civic education and preparation for direct elections. Are our
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citizens well prepared for direct elections? In
In 1998 we have dixit
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already had our first erection and that Is the Sanitary Board which Later leve lopen wit the 人 the previous Urban Council, that is, we had elections.
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several we also had elections with the Wrban District Board years ago
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and if you feel that we do not have sufficient training then
perhaps we should start to introduce some directly elected
into the Legislative Council
seats so that people can participate and then prepare
themselves.
It is said in
I feel that affter the signing of the Joint Declaration it is said that the future legislature will be constituted by election and therefore we should start as soon
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as possible.
Mr. Szeto Wah has said that there should be a li
reduction of eleven appointed and official members at every
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election and I personally faol that I cannot agree,ause we
should only take into account the appointed seats and
therefore there should be a reduction of
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But it should no
re than seven seats, Father than two.
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And, therefore, we
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