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The 1987 Green Paper put forth
for discussion a suggest that a proportion of the Members of the Legislature might in future be elected
by a new broadly-based Electoral College. I am a bit disappointed that the White Paper has not gone further into this subject, except saying that the public
opinion survey commissioned by the Survey Office showed
that there was some interest in the community in considering
the idea further. As we all know, there will not
be any appointed Member in the post-1997 legislature. and yet we need a legislature which has a balanced view and represents the interests of all sectors of
the community. This, I believe, cannot be achieved if the future legislature only comprises members directly elected or elected through the functional constituencies. A broadly-based Electoral College will be a practical
and effective vehicle to ensure that we will have a
balanced legislature in the future. The latter proposal has been discussed in the Basic Law Drafting Committee and it appears that it has been, in general, favourably received. It is very likely that the future Basic
Law will provide some similar arrangement to elect
a portion of the members to the legislature.
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With the benefit of the public
comments gathered during the Green Paper consultation period, the Government should begin drafting a more
concrete proposal in regard to this idea for further
public consultation with the aim of introducing this
system at an early stage. We will need time for this
new system to settle in and make all necessary refinements
to it before 1997. [With the Basic Law still being
drafted, it is understandable that the scope for changes
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