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OF 16095OZ NOVEMBER 92
INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
ELECTIONS: PRESS REPORTS.
1.
PROPOSALS BY CHIM PUI-CHUNG ON LEGCO
WAH KIU YAT PO TODAY (16 NOV) REPORTED THAT LEGCO MEMBER CHIM PUI-CHUNG (INDEPENDENT) WOULD BE MAKING COUNTER-PROPOSALS ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES (FC'S) AND FORMATION OF THE ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR LEGCO ELECTIONS.
ELECTION COMMITTEE
2.
PROPOSING A 480-MEMBER ELECTION COMMITTEE (EC) COMPRISING REPRESENTATIVES OF BOTH FC'S AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES. HE BELIEVED HIS PROPOSALS WOULD MEET THE THREE CRITERIA OF BEING OPEN, FAIR AND ACCEPTABLE TO HONG KONG PEOPLE. THE PROPOSED COMPOSITION OF THE EC IS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTOR
21 FC'S
9 GEOGRAPHICAL
CONSTITUENCIES
NO.OF REPRESENTATIVES
FOR EACH GROUP
10
30
SUB-TOTAL
210
270
GRAND TOTAL 480
THIS EC WOULD THEN ELECT 10 LEGCO MEMBERS. IT IS NOT CLEAR FROM THE REPORT THAT HOW THE ELECTIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED.
3. CHIM SAID THAT HIS ORIGINAL THINKING AS FOR THE EC TO DRAW 50 OF ITS MEMBERS FROM HONG KONG DELEGATES TO THE NPC AND CPPCC. HE HAD SUBSEQUENTLY DROPPED THIS IDEA IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE 1995 ELECTIONS WOULD BE CONDUCTED UNDER HKG'S AUTHORITY. NEVERTHELESS, HE BELIEVED THIS CURRENT PROPOSAL WAS MORE REPRESENTATIVE THAN THOSE FOUR MAJOR SECTORS PROVIDED FOR IN THE BASIC LAW (BL) FOR THE EC OF THE SECOND SAR LEGISLATURE: AND THE 480-STRONG MEMBERSHIP WOULD BE BROADLY IN LINE WITH THE BL STIPULATION OF 400.
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