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OUR TELNO 1701: LEGCO MOTION DEBATE: FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LEGCO ELECTIONS

1. FURTHER TO TUR, LEGCO HELD A MOTION DEBATE ON THE FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON 15-16 JULY. A COPY OF THE REPORT IS BEING SENT BY BAG TO YOU CRICKETTS, HKD).

2. THE ORIGINAL MOTION MOVED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE, RONALD ARCULLI, WAS AS FOLLOWS:

'THAT THIS COUNCIL TAKES NOTE OF THE REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS."

THERE WERE TWO AMENDMENT MOTIONS. THE FIRST WAS PUT FORTH BY JIMMY MCGREGOR, WHO PROPOSED TO REPLACE THE SELECT COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION OF A MULTI-SEAT SINGLE NON-TRANSFERABLE-VOTE SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE-SEAT SINGLE-VOTE SYSTEM. FREDERICK FUNG PROPOSED A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION URGING THE GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND ENHANCE THE FAIRNESS OF THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY ELECTION SYSTEM AND TO EXAMINE ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH THE BOR ORDINANCE.

3. THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS REPLIED ON BEHALF OF

HKG: COPIES OF TEXTS FOLLOW BY FAX. THE THREE EX-OFFICIO LEGCO MEMBERS DID NOT VOTE ON ARCULLI'S MOTION, NOR THE TWO AMENDMENT MOTIONS ON THE GROUNDS THAT (I) THE REPORT BEING DEBATED WAS ONE FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO LEGCO: AND (II) THE ADMINISTRATION

WILL NEED TIME TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE REPORT PLUS THE VIEWS

EXPRESSED BY MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC.

4. THE VOTING RESULTS WERE:

A. JIMMY MCGREGOR'S AMENDMENT MOTION WAS CARRIED BY 28 VOTES TO

23, WITH TWO ABSTENTIONS:

B. FREDERICK FUNG'S AMENDMENT MOTION WAS DEFEATED BY 27 VOTES TO

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