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Public Eye | Hong Kong’s ‘hypocrisy camp’ cannot treat CY Leung both ways
Michael Chugani questions the opposition’s outrage over Beijing’s appointment of the chief executive to top advisory body
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I am confused. Is Leung Chun-ying the chief executive or not? Well, he is and he isn’t. It depends on what political points need to be scored.
To opposition lawmakers, he is just a Beijing lapdog who won the top job with just 689 votes. And since they don’t accept him as chief executive, they refuse to stand up when he makes Legco appearances and choose to taunt and hurl missiles at him.
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But now, suddenly, he is the chief executive. Opposition legislators have sent a protest letter to Beijing saying it is a conflict of interest for Leung to be made a senior member of its top advisory body while he is still chief executive. The letter said it was morally wrong to give him the mainland role while he is allegedly being investigated for pocketing HK$50 million from Australian firm UGL.
But why the outrage over someone they don’t consider as chief executive being appointed as a mainland adviser? And what right do they have to protest?
It is meddling for them to think they can tell the central government who they can appoint as an adviser
If opposition lawmakers can accuse Beijing of meddling in our affairs by backing Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor for chief executive, then surely it is meddling for them to think they can tell the central government who they can appoint as an adviser.
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