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The Governor asked if some of the Advisory Committees should be wound-up and their work taken over by LegCo Committees. Mr. Cheung said that this depended. Some Committees had been created because there was no popular participation in LegCo. If LegCo had a proper Committee structure, they would not be needed. But a distinction had to be made between these Committees
Mr. Lo and ones which gave genuine professional advice. Chi-kin said that it was necessary to strengthen the LegCo Committee system and create a separate secretariat for LegCo.
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The Governor asked if a clearer distinction
Mr. Lo Chi-kin should be made between ExCo and LegCo. said that he thought ExCo should be more fully representative. He suggested that the rules of confidentiality and collective responsibility should be relaxed to allow more people to participate in it. The Governor wondered if ExCo would then become in effect an upper chamber for LegCo. Mr. Anthony Cheung said that ExCo needed to reflect the views of the people. accepted the principles of confidentiality and collective responsibility, but they needed to be re-interpreted.
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The Governor asked if we should get rid of OMELCO. Mr. Cheung said that it was important to make a
Their roles were distinction between ExCo and LegCo. quite different. But we might need some sort of
The mechanism to allow cooperation between the two. Governor said that, given this view, he was surprised that Meeting Point members felt that there should be an
Mr. Cheung overlap in membership between ExCo and LegCo. said that ExCo need not necessarily reflect the composition of LegCo. It ought to reflect popular feelings. Mr. Luk Shin-tim said that elected councillors should have an input into the formulation of policy. Government could if it wished create a joint platform by drawing on the manifestos of the political groups.
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The Governor asked what his priorities should be with respect to the composition of LegCo in 1995. Mr. Anthony Cheung said that a great deal would need to be
It would not be easy to negotiated with the Chinese.
But it might be have more directly elected seats. possible to make progress in other areas, for example in the creation of new functional constituencies and the Election Committee, which could be a college consisting of elected members of LegCo, the Municipal Councils and District Boards. Mr. Li Chik-yuet said that he thought
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