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The Chinese side evidently had no difficulty

of principle with an interim package covering some LegCo issues. They accepted

our proposal that the voting age should be

lowered to 18 for all elections. They also

seem to have had no difficulty of principle with our proposal that the voting method

should be single seat single vote. They

accepted that this should apply to the District Board and Municipal Council

elections.

But they refused to accept as

part of an interim package that the single

seat

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single vote method should apply to

the Legislative Council.

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