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(b) the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18;

(c)

the

adoption of a "single seat, single vote" method

of voting in the geographical constituency elections;

(d)

the abolition of appointed membership of the District

Boards (DB) and an increase in directly

membership;

elected

(e)

membership of

the

the abolition of appointed

Municipal councils (MC) and an increase in directly

elected membership;

(f)

the broadening of the franchise for the existing

21 functional constituencies (FC), and the creation

of nine new FCS embracing the entire economically

active population of Hong Kong; and

(g)

the establishment of an Election Committee (EC) with

all or most of its

members drawn from the elected

DB members.

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1993

of these seven proposals, Members have on 12 January

approved the introduction of

Boundary and Election Commission.

a bill to provide for a

As for the other six

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