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THE first chief executive of the post-1997 government should be selected as early as possible, so as to allow time for appointment of senior civil servants, a Preliminary Working Committee working group said yesterday.

Wilfred Wong Ying-wai, chairman of the PWC civil service group, said that the formation of the Government's top echelons would inevitably be a complicated process.

'The nomination and appointment of principal officials and department heads requires detailed consideration and careful selection. This will take some time,' he said.

The PWC proposed that the chief executive be named during the fourth quarter of 1996.

Mr Wong would not say whether the proposal would mean bringing forward the date to early next year, but said the earlier he or she was named, the better.

He was speaking after a meeting of the civil service group, during which civil servants were told of their rights to stay in office as promised in the Basic Law.

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