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Ironing out internal rows to test democrats

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The pan-democratic camp's biggest challenge this year will be settling internal disputes and working together, its legislators said.

Ronny Tong Ka-wah, of the Civic Party, said that for the past six months, democratic legislators had been having discussions about working together more closely and setting aside differences, but without much success.

'I am quite disappointed by that, personally,' he said, adding that it was important to reach a consensus on a viable model of constitutional development and on the district council elections.

'The Commission on Strategic Development will come out with a model on constitutional development in February, and we shouldn't be reacting to that because then we will just be seen as the opposition. We should be taking the initiative to come up with a viable model before that,' Mr Tong said.

He said there were differences on issues such as how the nominating committee for the chief executive election should be reformed.

'Also, there are some questions of 'face', such as who should propose the model and so on,' he said.

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