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3.
This community commitment to democratic reform is
not a short-run polling phenomenon. It has remained firm
over the last eighteen months, despite intense CPG criticism
of HKG and high-profile warnings to the community. Opinion
polls demonstrate that a clear majority refuses to abandon
its principles, thus indicating the solid bedrock of support
package rests.
on which the 1992
example,
constitutional
For
Usdess
SCMP Poll 21 June 1992
(a) 66 per cent believed that HKG should introduce
*
more democracy,
confronting China.
HKS Poll, 10/12 April
(b)
even
at
the risk of
78 per cent rejected the suggestion that Hong
Kong ought to abandon the quest for democracy
if there were a risk to the territory's
prosperity in the run up to 1997.
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