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That members of the Election Committee should be elected fairly and openly in Hong Kong.
The arrangements for the elections inside the Election Committee should themselves be open and fair.
The Governor's proposal in October 1992 was that the Election Committee should draw all or most of its members from the directly-elected District Boards; and that the Election Committee should be able to vote for any qualified candidate, not just for members of the Election Committee.
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54. This proposal meets the two essential requirements. would also provide a simple solution, since no new electoral machinery would be needed.
55. The Chinese side's proposal (tabled in Round 7 of the talks and later clarified, in response to repeated questions from the British side, in Round 14) was that:
The composition and ratio of the Election Committee should follow precisely the four-sector model set out in paragraph 2 of Annex 1 of the Basic Law, but the size of the Committee should be about 600, not 800 as in paragraph 2 of Annex 1.
The voting method would be that each of the four sectors would elect three candidates for election by the Election Committee to LegCo making twelve in all. Candidates would not have to be members of the EC, but would have to come from the relevant sector. The election of these three candidates in each sector would be by block vote, using a simple majority system. All members of the Election Committee would then elect 10 of the 12 to become members to serve on the Legislative Council from among these by simple majority.
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