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4.

Mrs

Chow

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was

puzzled

about

what

"organisation-based"

FCS meant. She said her Party would

support the 1993 package provided that the FC voting

arrangements would reflect the wish of corporations and not employees. Giving votes to company directors is not giving

notes to the companies; furthermore, to prevent abuse,

there should be a limit on the number of directors eligible

to

A FC system with a franchise of one could hardly be thinkable if these

vote.

million/800,000 voters

criteria are followed.

5.

Election

The Liberal Party would support a 4-sector

Committee. She suggested that we would actually

need to rely on Liberal Party votes to get a bill based on

the 1993 package through Second Reading in LegCo. She also

believed quite a few of the moderate independents could be

persuaded to support the 1993 EC/FC package. In short, her

Party

would give conditional support to a bill based on the

1993 package.

6.

Mrs Chow emphasized that the Liberal Party did not

want to be seen as cronies of China. If the talks broke

down, she saw little point in calling on the two

back to the conference table as it must

been a breakup on points of fundamental principles,

prolonged uncertainty could only have an even more

unsettling effect on HK society.

governments to go

have

and

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