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Would be politically unrealistic to expect Governor to negotiate with China on his proposals when Hong Kong did not know what these were.

More Directly Elected Seats

Criticism

Answer

Contrary to the Basic Law. Unacceptable.

Believe more directly elected seats would be widely

welcomed. But as Governor has made clear, not the only way to build up democracy, Thus he set out in

his speech proposals in parallel

within the terms of the JD and BL.

on how to do this

Voting Age

Criticism

(unlikely to be criticism)

Answer

Widespread community support for lowering the voting

age. It is 18 in the UK and China. (Lu Ping was reported by Wen Wei Pao of 22 July to have supported lowering the voting age to 18.)

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