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elector
are : Zhou
on the General Electoral Roll.
Immediate examples
Nan and Qin Wenjun of the NCNA. (We are checking
whether any other NPC/CPPCC members are unregistrable
Hong Kong law.) They should not be allowed to become
under
EC members.
Approach being developed
5.
Taking the foregoing considerations into account, one
approach would be to accept that those Hong Kong
NPC/CPPCC members who are registrable and, at the next
updating of the General Electoral Roll, have registered as
electors under Hong Kong law should form an electoral college
in the 4th sector of the EC to elect a number of EC members.
Critical to the political acceptability in Hong Kong of
such an approach would be the split of the 150 EC seats
(in the 4th sector) to be allocated to the NPC/CPPCC electoral
college. The note at Annex sets out a number of scenarios
none of
them appears to be particularly attractive, and all
except scenario (6) - would attract very severe criticism of
a "sham" election.
6.
As regards Legco
have initially argued that
as
members, although the Chinese
they should have seats on the EC
as of right, they have not put as much emphasis on this
they had on the role of NPC/CPPCC members. Furthermore,
it is hard to imagine that they would really insist on giving
EC seats to those Legco members (e.g. Martin Lee, etc.) who
are anathema to the Chinese. We should therefore not propose to the Chinese that we would accept Legco members as of right
in the 4th sector. Nevertheless, if the Chinese were
to
the
insist on their inclusion, we could consider accepting that 60 Legco members, together with the members of the DBS, the Municipal Councils and the Rural FC should form a separate
electoral college to elect the balance of the EC members
in the 4th sector.
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