Audrey Eu: Leung Chun-ying should consider quitting
Problems of Leung's cabinet heart-wrenching, says Civic Party chairwoman; the party will continue proposing ideas to improve city
The Civic Party will offer solutions to the government's problems but controversy-embroiled Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying must help himself first, party chairwoman Audrey Eu Yuet-mee says.
Eu also said she wanted to double her party's membership to at least 800 in two years and raise funds for the party so that district work, policy research and other pro-democracy movements can be better carried out.
The party founder and newly elected chairwoman said it had been "heart-wrenching" to see Leung's cabinet creating problems one after another for themselves.
While Leung should consider stepping down, she said, the Civic Party would continue to seek solutions for the city's troubles, including suggestions on the policy address and budget.
"We don't just oppose, we want to have alternative solutions and better options," Eu said. "There have been suggestions from the Civic Party, which I think if the government is willing to adopt, would help [Hong Kong]. But very often the government is stuck with a face problem … and it just seems always to be at loggerheads with the pan-democrats."
Eu, 59, who was the Civic Party's founding leader from 2006 to 2010, and a lawmaker for 12 years before losing her seat in the election three months ago, was returned uncontested as chairwoman on Saturday.