63.
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 Legislative Council making twelve in all.
Candidates would not have to be members of the Election
Committee, 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 of the Legislative Council by simple
majority.
In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government the Chinese side's proposals do not meet the essential requirements and would not therefore provide a fair and open method of election.
64.
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 the Hong Kong Deputies to the National People's Congress and representatives of Hong Kong members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. These
people have not been elected openly and fairly in Hong Kong; to include them 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. It would mean that part of the Election Committee was produced in an undemocratic way.
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