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functional

constituencies,

and arrangements

for the nine new functional constituencies to

enfranchise all the remaining eligible voters

in our working population;

Boards

fourth, Bore authority for the District

and Municipal Councils and the

abolition of appointed membership to both;

fifth,

the establishment of a Boundary

and Election Commission;

sixth, that the Election

Committee

needed

under

the Basic Law for

been

simplest

elections should comprise

themselves

the 1995 LegCo

members who have

elected.

I suggested that

the

way to achieve this would be to

draw all or most of its

members from the

directly-elected District Boards.

162.

of

establishment

far been

these six proposals only the fifth

the

-

has so

of a Boundary and Election Commission

implemented. The first part of my fourth proposal

that more authority

Municipal Councils

implemented.

given to District Boards and

is in the process of being

But all the rest remain, so far, unimplemented

and

are

the

Government.

subject

of discussion with

the Chinese

за