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#AceBreakingNews – Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam will not seek second term, chief secretary John Lee emerges as possible successor

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she will not run for a second term in a leadership election in the global financial hub due to take place on May 8.

Ms Lam said on Monday her family was her top priority. She added that the decision was her “personal wish and aspiration” and entirely based on her family considerations.

The election was pushed back from March 27 to give the government time to battle a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more than a million of the 7.4 million people in the former British colony.

Since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, it has had four chief executives, who all struggled to balance the democratic aspirations of some residents with the vision of China’s Communist Party leaders.

Hong Kong’s chief secretary John Lee, the number 2 official in the global financial hub, is set to resign in order to join a race in May to become its new leader, broadcaster TVB said, citing an unidentified source.

Mr Lee, 64, a security official during the prolonged and often violent 2019 pro-democracy protests, was promoted in 2021 in a move some analysts said signalled Beijing’s priorities for the city related to security rather than finance or the economy.

Other possible contenders include the city’s financial secretary, Paul Chan, as well as former leader Leung Chun-ying, but none has announced a bid.

Born in British-ruled Hong Kong in 1957 and becoming a life-long civil servant and devout Catholic, Ms Lam took office in 2017 with a pledge to unite a city that was growing increasingly resentful of Beijing’s tightening grip.

“There’s only one consideration and that is family. I have told everyone before that family is my first priority,” Ms Lam told a regular press briefing.

“They think it’s time for me to go home.”

She declined to comment on possible candidates to replace her and said she had not decided on her future plans.

Ms Lam said she had proposed a government restructuring to mainland authorities that would include new policy departments.

But it would be up to the city’s next leader to decide whether to go ahead with the plan, she added.

ABC/wires

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