Pressure increases on Hong Kong leader to enact controversial national security law
Pro-Beijing veteran says government has enough time to push ahead with controversial law, which is needed to counter independence calls
The pressure to enact national security legislation in Hong Kong is piling as the man tipped to be the next sole local delegate to the mainland’s top legislative body called on the chief executive to work on Article 23 of the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, within her term.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also said during her three-day maiden duty visit to Beijing that she would do her best to create a favourable environment to enact the highly contentious national security legislation, adding that Beijing knew her stance on the matter.
Speaking on a radio programme on Wednesday, Tam Yiu-chung, a newly elected member to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s legislature, said that with the current government having more than four years left in office, it should work on the controversial law and not just pass it on to the next administration. But he said that was no need for an exact timeline at the moment.
