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Bill of Rights point could be argued both ways. The

merit of the

"one-man one-vote" proposal was related

to the size of the FCs.

Mr. Lee said it was important to deal with the bills

asap, and they would be suggesting two meetings per

week during the Bills Committee. He agreed with the

Governor that it could be counter-productive for the

Government to propose a time-table for the processing

Mr Yeung said that in view of the

of the bills.

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proposals, their

slipping public support for the

opponents in LegCo would try to delay the bills. It

was therefore important to ensure that the bills went

through Legco in two months. UDHK therefore suggested

Government should vigorously lobby

independent Legco Members, as it had before the FC

meeting on the airport platform contract.

that

the

When Yueung

spoke with Mr. Lee Chik-yuet recently, Lee had been

confident that the

bills.

Meeting Point would vote for the

These four votes, together with those of UDHK

(13), Emily Lau,

Christine Loh, Anna Wu, Pang

Chun-hoi, Simon Ip, Roger Luk, Martin Barrow and the

ex officio Members would give 27 votes for the bills.

UDHK would speak with Andrew Wong. On its part the

Vincent Cheng,

government should lobby Timothy

Samuel Wong, and Eric Li.

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