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BASIC LAW: BLDC DIRECTORS' MEETING: PRESS REPORTS
MAINSTREAM MODEL
1. THE DIRECTOR'S MEETING YESTERDAY (23 JANUARY) DISCUSSED THE MAINSTREAM MODEL PROPOSED BY THE BLDC SPECIAL GROUP ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM, BUT DID NOT ARRIVE AT ANY CONCLUSION.
2. LU PING TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE MEETING CONSIDERED A SUGGESTION
TO INCREASE THE PROPORTION OF GEC-ELECTED MEMBERS AND TO PLACE THESE MEMBERS EVENLY WITH THE TWO CATEGORIES OF FUNCTIONAL AND DIRECTLY-ELECTED MEMBERS, SO AS TO PROVIDE BETTER CHECKS AND BALANCES IN SEPARATE VOTE COUNTING.
NATIONALITY RESTRICTION ON LEGCO MEMBERSHIP
3. BOTH LI HOU AND LU PING MAINTAINED THAT THE PROPOSED 15-PERCENT RESTRICTION ON FOREIGNERS AND THOSE WITH A RIGHT OF ABODE IN
FOREIGN COUNTRIES WAS FULL CONSISTENT WITH THE JD WHICH DID NOT PRECLUDE SUCH A PROPORTIONAL RESTRICTION ON MEMBERSHIP OF THE SAR LEGISLATURE.
4. SOME MEMBERS PROPOSED THAT THE CEILING BE RAISED TO 25 PERCENT, BUT NO FIRM VIEW WAS REACHED.
5. THE PRESS ALSO REPORTED THAT A NUMBER OF TEXTUAL AMENDMENTS WERE CONSIDERED, BUT DETAILS WERE NOT AVAILABLE.
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ORGAN
6. THE PRESS GAVE WIDE COVERAGE TO LI HOU'S REMARKS ON A SUGGESTION TO SET UP A CONSULTATIVE ORGAN IN HONG KONG, FOLLOWING THE PROMULGATION OF THE BL, TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WITH THE MAINLAND. LI SAID SUCH AN ORGAN WOULD BE NEITHER A CENTRE OF POWER NOR A SHADOW CABINET. ITS MEMBERSHIP WOULD NOT BE THE SAME AS THAT OF THE ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THE CE. HE STRESSED THAT THE
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