Mysterious callers target Cathay Pacific cabin crew, lobbying them to vote pro-establishment candidate in by-election
The flight attendants union received 10 complaints as of Sunday evening, and vowed to call the police if its members’ details were illegally obtained
The Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union on Sunday denounced calls its members received – from someone claiming to represent the union – asking them to vote for a pro-establishment candidate in the by-election, and vowed to call the police if its database had been hacked.
The union has some 7,200 members and union chairwoman Vera Wu Yee-mei said it received 10 complaints as of 6.30pm on Sunday.
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“Our members said the person on the phone asked them to vote for a pro-establishment candidate in the Hong Kong Island constituency. And that person claimed to be representing the flight attendants union.
“This is shameless. We sternly condemn such conduct, which should not be allowed in a society as open and fair as Hong Kong,” she said.
Voting for the seats – in three geographical constituencies of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon West and New Territories East and the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape sector functional constituency – began at 7.30am. Polling stations will close at 10.30pm.