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LegCo Motion Debate on 1 July

to take immediate

and

"That this

Council urges the Government

improving the

action in reviewing

relationship between

the

Legislative

and the

Executive

Councils on the

basis of the principle

provided in the

Sino-British Joint

Declaration

that

the

executive

authorities shall be accountable to the

legislature."

Mr. Deputy President,

As

afternoon,

definitions

about the

we debate on the motion before นธ this

Ι believe it would be useful to get one or two

out of the way first. There has been much talk

Executive being accountable to the Legislature,

but what do we really mean by that?

circumstances are unique.

Hong Kong's

We do not have an elected

Government, and there is no Government party as you will

find in, for example, the UK.

responsible

for

The Administration is

formulating policies; the Governor, on the

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