Hong Kong's leader-designate Donald Tsang (???) reiterated yesterday he has no intention of speeding up the Chinese territory's progress towards full democracy.
A ruling by China last year that set the city on a slow course towards universal suffrage would not be changed by him or by Beijing, he told the news network CNN.
"I'm sure the election of the chief executive in 2007 will be based on a more wider franchise, more liberal arrangements," he told a gathering of foreign correspondents earlier. "We must be able to demonstrate that we are moving steadily and decisively towards universal suffrage. But in a place like Hong Kong where we started
rather late ... we still have a lot of work to do to catch up with a lot of advanced democracies. We have to build up our own political institutions, we have to agree on the best arrangements and the best organization of the legislature to manifest our universal suffrage."
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