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As for the grouping of the former political figures, the ADPL proposes that all elected District Board members should nominate one hundred Election Committee members, who will serve on the Election Committee and participate in the selection of the Chief Executive and ten Legislative Councillors, with the mandate from all Hong Kong people who fall outside the aforesaid three groupings. (For details, please refer to Table 2).

3.2

Eligibility of candidates and method of their

nomination:

As

for the

nomination of candidates for the Committee, ADPL proposes that this should be done in accordance with the principle that elections should be open, and allow the participation of all Hong Kong citizens. Therefore, ADPL propose that as with the present Legislative Council and district elections, ten persons should be able to nominate a candidate.

The member of nominees that each elector can put up should be proportional to the number of seats in the Committee. For example, for election of members in the sector for former political figures, twenty constituencies will each return five members, and each elector therefore should have the right to nominate five candidates. Take the other for the professions, each elector to nominate 12 candidates.

sectors.

example for the sector should have the right The same applies to other

As for the distribution of Committee members, ADPL proposes that it should in accordance with the

distribution

constituencies.

of

seats

among

the functional Please see a chart below for reference.

Establishment of the Basic Law Preparatory Committee

(4)

The ADPL

proposals existing

would like to stress that the above are made on the basis of respect for the three constitutional documents, namely, the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the Basic Law and the Bill of Rights. Of these, it is the Basic Law which specifically laid down the direction for future political development, and the pace of democratisation stipulated is somewhat conservative.

For this reason, the ADPL has all along been advocating the formation, as soon as possible, of the Basic Law Preparatory Committee with Hong Kong people constituting at least half of its membership. The main task of the committee will be to gather views of Hong Kong people on outdated provisions in the Basic Law, and forward them to the National People's Congress for consideration, and then suitable amendments can be effected as soon as the SAR's mechanisms for amending the mini-constitution are in place. And amendments should aim at the speeding up of democratisation. Table 4 the time-table for the implementation constitutional proposals.

is

of ADPL's