Mrs. Chan championed a liberal model for reform that would allow an open field for chief executive elections and a fully elected legislature by 2012.
The opposition rejected the amendments as inconsequential and repeated its demands for a fully elected parliament chosen through fair elections.
In many ways, the scene seemed like a metaphor for America's problems in Iraq, with the rebel attacks that have spread to virtually every Sunni and Shiite town across this country of 25 million threatening to overwhelm plans for three rounds of national elections next year, ending with a fully elected government in January 2006.
He says it is possible to conceive of a fully elected upper house and certainly of a part-elected and part-nominated upper house with carefully circumscribed powers.
On Sunday, Tim Farron, the frontrunner for the Lib Dems' top job, said he planned to use one of his party's first opposition debate days to lobby for the introduction of PR in elections to the House of Commons, local government and a future, fully elected House of Lords.
Some mooted changes, such as restoring a fully elected Senate, seem reasonable.
This year, however, the legislature voted to replace itself with a fully elected 28-seat body.
But some cabinet sources said they believed he opposed a fully elected second chamber in principle.
The Green party's line on the House of Lords is that we should replace it with a fully elected chamber.
In Afghanistan, a senior U.N. diplomat is responsible for assisting the transition to a fully elected government.
By 2008-2009, Mr. Mills proposes, there would be a fully elected board and power would revert entirely to Roosevelt.
