Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she won’t seek a second term after a rocky five years marked by huge protests calling for her resignation
Her successor will be picked in May and the city’s security chief during the 2019 protests is among the possible choices.
“I will complete my five-year term as chief executive on the 30th of June this year, and I will also call an end to my 42 years of public service,” Lam said at a news conference. She thanked her team of local officials and the central authorities in Beijing, and said she plans to spend more time with family, which is her “sole consideration.
“Less than two years into my chief executive term, because of the anti-extradition bill and because of interference from foreign forces and also the attack of Covid-19, I was under great pressure,” Lam said. “However, the motivation for me to press on was the very staunch support behind me by the central authorities.”
She presided over a period in which Beijing firmly established control over the former British colony, which was returned to China in 1997. For years, the city rocked back and forth between calls for more freedom and growing signs of China extending its reach into the city, even after Hong Kong was promised 50 years of freedom to govern itself semi-autonomously from the mainland.
Lam’s popularity sharply declined over her five-year term, particularly over legislation that would have allowed crime suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial and later over her leadership during the 2019 protests, which
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