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the single seat single vote system
enjoys widespread support in the Legislative Council. If we had accepted the Chinese position and introduced legislation to apply this voting method to the District Boards and Municipal Councils only, the Council might have extended the measure to apply to the elections to their own body. That would lead straight back to further difficulties
with the Chinese Government.
We would not
have saved time: we would have wasted it.
Despite our best efforts, it has not been
possible to reach agreement on this issue. The question of abolishing appointed members also remains unsolved. Time has now run out for pursuing these points.
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