Pro-establishment lawmakers take aim at Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s team, passing motion urging administration to improve its governance

Horace Cheung, a member of leader’s cabinet, says government has to be effective in executing policies and also receptive to people’s opinions

Some ministers refuse to listen to lawmakers’ concerns after securing enough votes to pass proposals, Cheung’s colleagues have complained

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Residents wait for Covid-19 tests in Hong Kong. The government’s handling of the pandemic has been criticised. Photo: May Tse

Published: 6:48pm, 6 May 2021Updated: 11:07pm, 6 May 2021

Pro-establishment lawmakers took aim at Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s administration on Thursday, passing a motion urging it to improve its governance and describing the performance of some officials as unacceptable.

Tabling the motion, legislator Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan, an adviser in Lam’s de facto cabinet, the Executive Council, said the government had to be both effective in executing policies and receptive to people’s opinions.

“To be a strong executive-led administration does not mean that it can ignore the public’s views as reflected by the legislature,” he said.

“Even if you secure enough votes [to pass bills and proposals], it does not mean social problems can be solved easily.”

Horace Cheung tabled the motion. Photo: SCMP

Cheung, a vice-chairman of the city’s largest pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, also revealed his colleagues had complained to him that some ministers refused to listen to lawmakers’ concerns after securing enough votes to pass proposals.