functional constituencies and the Election Committee
conditional on reaching an acceptable overall agreement including through train criteria. He emphasised that the British side were working for success in the talks, but that
for practical reasons there were only weeks rather than months left in which to reach an agreement.
PART III: ANALYSIS OF PROPOSALS PUT FORWARD DURING THE TALKS
35.
This part considers the various electoral proposals put forward by the British and Chinese sides against the essential requirements of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government: that the 1994-95 elections should be open, fair and acceptable to the people of Hong Kong.
VOTING AGE
36.
The Governor's proposal in October 1992 was that the
voting age should be reduced from 21 to 18 for all elections in
Hong Kong.
37. The voting age is 18 in both the UK and the PRC, and this
proposal was widely supported in Hong Kong.
38.
The Chinese side indicated that they might be willing to agree a voting age of 18 for the District Board and Municipal Council elections; but said nothing on whether it would apply
to the Legislative Council elections.
ELIGIBILITY TO STAND FOR ELECTION
39. The Chinese side proposed that Hong Kong law should be changed to permit Hong Kong Deputies to the National People's
Congress and Hong Kong members of the China People's Political
Consultative Committee to serve in the Legislative Council and
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