Graft-buster issues guides on election rules amid suspicions of foul play in chief executive race
Booklet states it is an offence to dissuade candidate from running by offering advantage as inducement or reward
The city’s anti-graft watchdog has produced an information leaflet and a booklet with guidelines stating it is unlawful to dissuade someone from running in an election by offering benefits, amid suspicions of foul play in the city’s coming leadership race.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption’s new “Reminder to Electors/Candidates’ Supporters” highlights the relevant rules and distinguishes between lawful and unlawful actions in the run-up to the chief executive election in March.
The information booklet says, for example, that “it is an offence for any person who corruptly offers an advantage to another person as an inducement or a reward for that person to stand or not to stand as a candidate in an election”.
Tsang did not comment on the speculation directly, but hinted that some people had been trying to dissuade him from running.