24 March 1993
Dear Colleague
鹹香
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
London SWIA 2AH
From The Secretary of State
Hong Kong
You will have seen that Chris Patten has now published his draft electoral legislation, and that this has produced
a further wave of criticism from China.
Given your
interest in Hong Kong, I thought that you would want to
know the background.
The tragic events in Tianamen Square had a profound
No. De demand-impact in Hong Kong. For the first time they created a from some sections strong demand that we should cater for the political as if the population
well as the economic aspirations of the people of Hong redules this.
Kong. In September 1991 the first direct elections were 'The OMELLO
held for 18 seats on the Legislative Council (LegCo). "consensus" it
A 1989-secto
strong preponderance of those elected (albeit on a divided
relatively low turnout) were supporters of the United 20-20-20 1991 ?
Democrats led by Mr Martin Lee. They have argued for introducing much greater democracy in advance of 1997.
50-50 in 95 picenter
-me
How did
React? They
After his arrival as Governor, Chris Patten had to
take this demand into account, together with opinion at Westminster and the likely views of the Chinese Government. He produced a carefully judged package, about which the Chinese were informed in advance. This proposed, inter alia, substantially expanding the electorate for the LegCo functional constituencies to cover the entire working
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.