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members to serve on the Legislative Council from among these by simple majority.

In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong

Government this proposal does not meet the essential requirements and would not therefore provide a fair and open

method of election.

68.

Following precisely the composition for the fourth sector

set out in paragraph 2 of Annex 1 of the Basic Law raises two

problems. First, the Basic Law model includes members of the

present Legislative Council, not all of whom have been elected.

Second, it includes representatives of Hong Kong Deputies to

the National People's Congress and Hong Kong members of the

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who have not been elected openly and fairly in Hong Kong; to include such people in the Election Committee simply by virtue of their

membership of these non-Hong Kong bodies would be a major

breach of the requirement that the Election Committee should be

composed of people who had themselves been elected openly and

fairly in Hong Kong.

69. The Chinese side could give no explanation for choosing

600 as the size of the Election Committee. But the fact that

they were prepared to introduce this variation into the model set out in Annex I of the Basic Law undermines their argument that the composition and ratio set out there could not also be adapted to the special circumstance of elections in Hong Kong

in 1995.

70.

The voting method proposed by the Chinese side is

self-evidently restrictive. Nor is it clear in the Chinese

proposal that the twelve candidates for election would

themselves be elected rather than chosen by some less open

process.

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