The Basic Law, agreed with the UK before the return of sovereignty in 1977, allowed for an “ultimate aim” of universal suffrage. But the NPC in 2004 ruled the territory’s leader, or chief executive, and LegCo members could not be chosen by the public in a direct vote.
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