Former Liberal Party leader James Tien hits out at CY again

Former Liberal Party leader James Tien Pei-chun slammed Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying for a second time yesterday, criticising the city's leader for failing to come up with a solution to the current political deadlock.

Tien won praise last month after he asked Leung to consider quitting.

The impertinence cost him his seat on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the mainland's top political advisory body. He then resigned as Liberal Party leader.

Asked on RTHK yesterday if he would reiterate his call for Leung to step down, Tien said: "Leung has already said he wouldn't resign … since he doesn't want to quit, [can he] please do something [to address the existing problems]? But the government so far has yet to do anything about it."

The pan-democrats' non-cooperation campaign in the Legislative Council, he said, made him worried that the government "would get nothing done in the next two years".

Tien said the government "should take the initiative to make the first step to communicate with the pan-democrats".