Financial Secretary John Tsang hit by egg at political forum in North Point
Two arrested after egg is thrown at financial secretary, hitting his head
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah was hit on the head by an egg thrown by a protester attending a government forum yesterday.
"Luckily I'm not wearing a good suit today," Tsang fired back at the audience at the forum in North Point. In fact, he was dressed in a tracksuit. He added that he appeared to have foreseen the incident.
Later, when he was asked by journalists whether he believed the real target had been someone else, a stern Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who was sitting next to Tsang, interrupted to advise him not to comment.
The incident came a couple of hours after Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said it was a fact that the narrow voter base that put Leung in the chief executive's chair had helped create problems in governance.
"In terms of governance, the current administration ... has met many challenges and difficulties," said Lam. "Making policies under such circumstances, according to my experience, requires the government to have strong legitimacy.
"The strongest legitimacy, of course, would come from electing the chief executive using 'one man, one vote'."
In an interview with Cable TV aired yesterday, Lam said she believed Beijing knows there would be a governance problem if the chief elected was not elected by universal suffrage in 2017.