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and
intended to continue to conduct the exercise in a calm
He envisaged there would be
issues of appointed seats in the
rational way.
arguments on the
Municipal Councils and the District Boards, the FCS,
the "one-man one-vote" proposal, and the Election
Committee (EC).
conceivable that the bills could be amended so that
they still gave arrangements for 1995 that were
reasonably decent and better than if we had done
nothing. The Governor went through the arguments
involved in the individual issues. On EC, we would be
interested in UDHK's ideas. He thought the principle
was not who were EC members, but how they became
members, i.e.,
they should do so through election and
not selection. Mr Yeung Sum said in principle they
Taking these in aggregate, it was
preferred Our proposal
was arbitrary in
constituting the EC.
to ADPL's alternative, which
arriving at the four sectors
(f)
MI
Man
proposal
Members'
it
It
Sai-cheong said the "one-man
one-vote"
If CRC and the independent
was
dangerous.
support for the proposal was allowed to grow,
could water down the whole constitutional package.
was important to preserve the integrity of the
geographical constituency system. The proposal also
contravened the Bill of Rights.
The Governor said the
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