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of these delegates.

of

The Governor said that inclusion

elected NPC/CPPCC delegates conformed with the

basic principle for forming the EC and could be used

bargaining chip in

as

a

Chinese.

our

with discussion

the

1995 LegCo: System of Function Constituencies

(Paper No. 17/92)

9.

workers/welfare

service FC.

by

In response a the question from the Governor, SCA said that it remained part of the proposal that measures should be introduced to plug loopholes in the

existing electoral arrangements as well as to widen the franchise of some FCs such as replacing corporate

voters with company directors and having social agency heads as voters in the social The Governor said that he was attracted option (c) in the paper (i.e. allocating the 9 new FC seats according to occupational groups). CS said

that he found the concept of using occupational groups

to form FCS weird against the background of the

existing FCS which represented industries and professions. He thought that option (a) (i.e. basing the electorate of the 9 new FCs on major industries)

was a more sensible arrangement. SCA observed that under both options (a) and (c), every economically active person would have a vote. Head/CPU said that

there would be serious discrepancies on the weight of

votes between the existing FCs and the 9 completely

democratic new FCS. He would therefore prefer option

(b) (i.e. abolishing existing FCs, except for MCs and

Heung Yee Kuk and having FCS based on the 27 occupational groups) which represented a maximum push for democracy. The meeting also noted that there was

-insurmountable practical difficulty

no

for the

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