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LEGCO FUNCTIONING WELL: SCA
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1992
GOINGS
NEW
BUT
IS
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THE IN GOINGS ON MUCH HAS BEEN SAID RECENTLY ABOUT THE
SERVICE, STYLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CIVIL THE FACT IS THAT LEGCO DOES GET ON WITH ITS JOB AND THE GOVERNMENT COPING WELL WITH THE CHANGES.
MR SZE SAID APART FROM THE COMPOSITION RETURNED, THE NEW STYLE LEGCO HAD NOT CHANGED AT ALL.
THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SZE, THIS AT A LUNCHEON MEETING TODAY (TUESDAY).
SAID
AND HOW
MEMBERS
WERE
IT'S
HAD
"ITS FUNCTIONS AND POWERS HAD REMAINED. THE SAME.
THAN MORE POWERS "THE NEW STYLE LEGCO DOES NOT HAVE ANY PREDECESSOR. WHAT IT HAS DONE IS TO EXERCISE THE POWERS IT ALWAYS
AND AGGRESSIVELY, HE SAID.
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APPOINTED ALL BE ESTABLISHMENT OF HOW THE
MR SZE NOTED THAT IN THE PAST WHEN THE GOVERNOR
THESE TENDED EITHER TO OR MOST OF THE MEMBERS,
WITH A GOOD UNDERSTANDING FIGURES OR PERSONS ALREADY GOVERNMENT WORKED.
THEREFORE EXISTED
A CERTAIN DEGREE OF UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST BETWEEN THEM AND THE CIVIL SERVICE. IT WAS CONSENSUS POLITICS THAN THE MORE USUAL ADVERSARIAL POLITICS.
STYLE LEGCO,
DIFFERENT
THE
RATHER
ELECTED
HAVE SAT SOCIAL
DIRECTLY MOST OF NEW IN THE
SOME BACKGROUND. COUNCILLORS CAME FROM A FREQUENTLY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TABLE FROM OFFICIALS ON AND OTHER ISSUES IN THEIR PRE-COUNCILLOR DAYS.
"IT IS DIFFICULT AND INDEED UNREALISTIC FOR US TO EXPECT TO TAKE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS, HOWEVER WELL-INTENTIONED, WITH THE DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE," HE SAID.
THEM
SAME
WORKS IT 18 AND INDEED MORE THERE IS INITIATIVES. GOVERNMENT
INQUISITIVE
"NOT BEING FAMILIAR WITH THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT
TEND TO BE MORE NATURAL THAT THEY
TO CAUTIOUS
SUPPORT IN GIVING
HE ADDED. NOTHING WRONG ABOUT THIS,
HE SAID THE CIVIL SERVICE HAD GROWN
ACCUSTOMED TO CONSENSUS
POLITICS BUT HAD ALSO LEARNED TO COPE WITH THE NEW STYLE LEGCO.
"WE HAVE LEARNED THAT
WE
OUR MUST IMPROVE
AND TO ANSWER
PRESENTATION
QUESTIONS MUCH
OF
PROPOSALS AND BE PREPARED TO EXPLAIN MORE SO THAN IN THE PAST.
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