Hong Kong Chief: Can’t Have Democracy Or The Poor Will Have A Say
Clearly, Leung Chung-Ying, Hong Kong’s embattled leader, did not get the Jean-Claude Juncker memo that“when things are bad, you have to lie.” As The NY Times reports, Leung – rather stunningly – said overnight that it was unacceptable to allow his successors to be chosen in open elections, in part because doing so would risk giving poorer residents a dominant voice in politics. Instead, rather unsurprisingly, he backed Beijing’s position that all candidates to succeed him as chief executive, the top post in the city, must be screened by a “broadly representative” nominating committee appointed by Beijing, and offered several thinly veiled warnings on Monday that it was risky for the protesters to try the patience of the national authorities.
