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Under the ADPL's proposal, the 500,000 members of trade unions will elect six FC members to LegCo as well as 46 members to the EC. Furthermore, out of a total of 4 million potential electors for the LegCo geographical constituency elections, the 3 million non-FC electors will elect on a geographical basis 100 members under the fourth sector of the EC. In practice, these electors will elect five EC members in each of the future 20 LegCo geographical constituencies.

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The problems of the ADPL model are as follows -

it involves a complicated network of elections (see also paragraph 21) particularly for the Labour sub-sector and the fourth sector of the EC;

it has not developed a clear, simple and workable voting system;

it takes for granted that the new FC seats proposed by ADPL will be adopted; and

it postulates that the Selection Committee for electing/ selecting the Chief Executive of the first HK SAR in 1997 is to be constituted along the same principle of the ADPL model for the 1995 EC. However, it is highly doubtful if the Chinese side will in fact ever agree to following the ADPL model when constituting the Selection Committee.

Option (c): an EC comprising all DB members, plus an equal number of representatives from the nine new FCs 17

This alternative builds on our current proposal. The 1994 DBs will have 338 directly elected members (memorandum XCX(93)2). They will form 50% of the total EC membership. The other 50% of the EC (i.e. a further 338 members) will be returned by the nine new FCs (delineated by economic sectors to cover all 2.7 million working population) through election. Each FC is to elect about 40 EC members.

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This alternative will ensure a broad-based EC. There are however two drawbacks. First, it will be a very complicated exercise organizing 2.7 million electors to elect the 338 EC members representing the nine new FCs. In practical terms, each elector will have to be asked to choose about

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