The latter, comprising Hong Kong figures, was in turn picked by the 150-strong Preparatory Committee, Beijing's handover body.
And he has played an active role in such key organizations as the Preparatory Committee, the Beijing-appointed body on transition matters.
The Preparatory Committee originally favored a multi-seat, single-vote method to choose the 20 legislators to be returned by direct election next year.
He has a seat on the Preparatory Committee, Beijing's transition body for the territory, and has won over plenty of influential mainland officials.
It was the future leader who took the public-relations pounding, not the Preparatory Committee, which proposed the changes, or the NPC, which ratified them.
The remaining 440 places are parcelled out among political parties, civil-rights groups, tribes and (of course) the entire 100-member preparatory committee, ensuring broad-based representation.
In Hong Kong, the authorities have set up a preparatory committee on Chinese medicine to pave the way for the licensing and registration of traditional practitioners.
Also a cause for concern was the recent controversial proposal by a subgroup of the Beijing-backed Preparatory Committee overseeing the transition to dilute or repeal some laws safeguarding civil liberties.
The Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee, meeting from 24 to 28 July, will review preparations for the Conference and also assess progress in the implementation of international support measures for those countries, particularly in the areas of official development assistance (ODA), debt relief, investment and trade.
As members of the conference's preparatory committee, the 20 members of the Governing Council who did not win posts in Mr Allawi's government have already awarded themselves seats in the 100-seat National Assembly, which will leave the 1, 000 delegates at the conference to scrap over the remaining 80.
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