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3.
in
about
The
Governor
said that he felt less strongly
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about the method of voting for the EC and did not see
the need to go firm on this specific point in his
October address.
He would instead just mention the possible methods and invite public discussion on this
the following months,
The Governor however
considered it was important to mention two points in
his address: firstly, the BL did not give any detail
the EC for 1995 and secondly, our proposal was proposition which would give Legco deeper roots in the
community.
CS said that it should be made clear in
the Governor's address that this would not return to
the old arrangement of DB electoral college whereby DB
members elected their own members to LegCo as
candidature would be open to all registered voters.
SHA said that the proposed EC would encourage more people to stand for election to DBS with the support of political parties.
4.
UK Rep said that it would be unwise for the
Governor to announce a clear decision on the EC in his
address. It would leave no room for manoeuvre for our
consultation with the Chinese who would accuse the
Governor for sabotaging the "through-train".
Governor
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said that the "through-train" would easily
lead to a condominium in practice if we could not do anything which the Chinese disliked. The point was that whether the "through-train" would actually run
would depend on the operation of LegCo between 1995
and 1997. PA said that the question was how much risk
there was in the Chinese rejecting the entire package
because of the composition of the EC.
consisted of an element of representation based on
FCS, the Chinese would find it more
If the EC
difficult to
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