TNAG-2722-FCO40-3928-Hong-Kong-elections-Election-Committee-1993 — Page 4

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Election Committee: 4th Sector

Introduction

If the Chinese side were prepared to accept the key points of our Functional Constituency proposals, we could

consider whether there is a way to accommodate the Chinese

concern that all Hong Kong NPC deputies and representatives of

CPPCC members in the 4th sector of the Election Committee

(EC),

without sacrificing our principle that EC members should

themselves be elected. This note describes in broad terms an

approach being developed within CAB; further work would need to be done particularly on the political acceptability of such

an approach, and also on the practical details of

implementation.

Background

2.

We have made a conditional proposal to the Chinese

that the 4th sector of the EC should be elected from members

of District Boards (approximately 340), the Municipal

Councils (80) and the Rural Functional Constituency

(approximately 110).

Under this proposal, the

electorate of some 530 would elect about 150 EC members.

total

This

gives a ratio of approximately 1 EC member per 3.53 electors. We have also proposed that the "block vote" method should be

used in electing EC members, and (although we have not told

the Chinese) we envisaged at the time that

(a) each of the 18 DBS would elect 7 EC members, and

(b) the UC, RC and the Rural FC would each elect

9 EC members.

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