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...is that what you are proposing, and woul3
you start first with the referendum, or would you start first
with a vote in, say, Omelco that there should be a
referendum?
Where would you start in this process?
MR MARTIN LEE: Thank you for putting the same question to me
that you put to Dame Lydia. I was sitting there at the back
listening to her answer, and I hoped you would repeat the question. Now, Dame Lyaia has not given you a straight
answer, with respect to her I can see her difficulties, she
is a Senior Executive Councillor and she finds it necessary
very often to tow the Government line as it were, and the
Government perhaps has no line in this regard. Now, we have
to come to a decision in Omelco. We have to put the matter
to a vote sooner or later and I for one have suggested it.
Now, the other thing is that Omelco is not
entirely representative at all. Not a single one of us has
been elected by universal suffrage and only less than 2% of
the entire population of Hong Kong had a vote in the last
clections to LegCo. So we do not consider ourselves
representative enough.
That is why I appeal to you to find
out for yourselves at least by commissioning a poll of public
opinion. That is the only way to find out - from the people,
the silent majority.
How would you expect the silent
majority to come up to tell you what they feel, when the
great majority of them cannot afford to leave Hong Kong after
1997, and they know exactly what the future master thinks on
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