Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen refused to commit to voting in the by-elections on Sunday, and said he would 'give an account to the people' once he had made up his mind, he told the South China Morning Post.
Both Tsang and the administration have said they are only organising the by-elections because they are duty-bound by law, and they believe the by-elections have been deliberately engineered.
Democratic Party lawmaker Andrew Cheng Kar-foo said in a Legco meeting that the promotional material for the by-elections was hardly eye-catching, with no appeal to the public to vote.
'If you aren't even willing to walk to the polling station, how can you expect us to have confidence in you to strive for real universal suffrage for us,' said Cheng.
Tsang replied that the by-elections were regarded by many as an abuse of election procedures and a waste of public resources, so he had to consider carefully whether to vote.
Independent lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-lan said if Tsang did not vote, civil servants might worry that voting would be held against them.
