Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that next month’s leadership election would go ahead as planned. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Chief executive election 2022: next month’s poll will go ahead as planned despite surging coronavirus cases, city leader says
- City leader Carrie Lam explained her decision to push ahead with the poll amid record infections after postponing by a year the 2020 Legislative Council election during a similar surge
- Noting the much smaller voter pool, she said: ‘It is far easier to put in place disease-control measures to make sure that it will be conducted in a safe manner’
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that next month’s leadership election would go ahead as planned. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
The March election to determine Hong Kong’s next leader will proceed as planned, despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has said.
Explaining her rationale on Tuesday, Lam noted that the chief executive poll involved just a tiny fraction of the electors eligible to vote in a Legislative Council election, the last of which was postponed by a year amid a similar surge in cases in 2020.
“It is far easier to put in place disease-control measures to make sure that it will be conducted in a safe manner, as opposed to a Legislative Council election that involves millions of voters,” she said at her weekly press briefing, while also leaving open the possibility for adjustments to be made.
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