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'Local delegates' to the next NPC to be directly elected
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As far as transparency and the selection criteria are concerned, we don't quite understand how HK deputies to the NPC are elected and how HK affairs advisers are selected, Can you tell us something about
them?
It will not be possible As you know, HK is now under British rule. to return deputies of the region to the NPC by election before 1997. But the situation will be different after 1997. The HK region will, These deputies, after 1997, return delegates of its own to the NPC. according to stipulations in the BL, will be returned through elections in HK. Of course, the NPC will work out an electoral method governing how HK deputies to the NPC will be elected in future. To sum up, the representatives must be returned through elections in HK. This will be completely different from the way HK delegates are currently returned to the NPC. As there is no way for HK to hold direct elections now, the present practice is to get nominations from various sectors, which will then be passed to Guangdong for the Provincial People's Congress to consider ways to return them through elections in the Guangdong province. been a long-standing problem which should end with this NPC as the ones returned in 1993 will be the last batch chosen through this method. The next NPC will be formed in 1998 when the SAR should have been set up already. HK deputies to the NPC then can be returned through elections in HK. And HK must have its own delegation attending the NPC.
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HK affairs advisers are not returned through elections because they are recruited by NCNA and HKMAO. Since they are recruited. they
What's more, these cannot be returned through elections in HK. advisers' role is only consultative in nature and they will not have any authority. They are only here to give us advice. They are different from NPC delegates. The People's Congress is a power organ and the NPC is our country's highest organ of state power. Advisers are different. They are recruited by us.
ICAC to be retained
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The ICAC was set up in HK in 1973 and has been very effective in building up a clean Government. The social climate has also turned better. What will be the status of the ICAC after 1997? Also, will this organisation be able to have exchanges with the mainland?
There are stipulations in the BL concerning the ICAC. That is, the ICAC will function independently under the future SAR and will be accountable to SAR's Chief Executive. The system under which the ICAC works will be retained. And so will the organisation itself. Its work and its functions will carry on. Its future operations will
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