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Medcoelo- and Retail

(8) Social Work

(9)

Recreation and Sport

Arrangements for candidates who are not of Chinese nationality or who have

the right or abode in foreign countries

of the

The Basic Law provides that the proportion of members Legislative Council who are Hong Kong residents with the right of abode in per cent foreign countries or not of Chinese nationality must not exceed 20 of the

total membership of the Council.

in

accordance with the principle of convergence with

ence with the 1007

constitutional arrangements, the LDF proposes that all the candidates for the geographical constituencies direct elections and the Election Committee should be Chinese citizens with no right of abode in any foreign country. In view of the fact that Hong Kong is an international finance and trade centre and that this feature should be preserved after 1997, nationals of foreign countries and those who have the right of abode in foreign countries Legislative should be allowed to be elected members of Hong Kong's

Council.

Therefore, the LDF proposes that there should be no restrictions on the nationality of corporate voters in the finance and trade functional

constituencies.

The

arrangements

concerned are as follows :

for

the

functional

.....

constituencies

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