His Monday press conference is usually devoted to the epidemic situation. This April 4, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, also announced her decision not to be a candidate for a second term. After five years at the head of the special administrative region (SAR), she will leave her post on June 30 to officially end her “forty-two years of career in government”. A career started in the British colonial administration, tells the independent site Hong Kong Free Press.
Initially scheduled for March, the election of the Chief Executive had been postponed from February to “give the government time in the battle against Covid-19”, explains the American agency Reuters, while the virus had infected more than a million people out of the city’s 7.4 million inhabitants.
According to the leader, the central government in Beijing had known of her desire to leave office since