HK leader acknowledges public anger, but won’t yield
Pro-Beijing Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam refuses to entertain pro-democracy protesters’ calls for direct popular elections for the city’s leadership and legislature. – EPA pic, November 26, 2019.
HONG Kong’s deeply unpopular Chief Executive Carrie Lam today acknowledged that the result of last weekend’s polls revealed public dissatisfaction with her government, but she offered no new concessions to the city’s pro-democracy movement. The district council elections on Sunday laid bare concerns about “deficiencies in the government, including unhappiness with the time taken to deal with the current unstable environment and, of course, to end violence”, she told a weekly press briefing.
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