HONG KONG, April 4 — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Monday that she will not seek another term as the city’s political elite prepares to select a new leader next month.
Lam said China’s leaders “understood and respected” her choice not to seek another term, adding that she had informed Beijing about her intentions in March 2021.“I have to put my family members first, and they feel it is time for me to return home,” she said. Her departure closes the chapter on a controversial five-year term that saw Beijing ramp up control following huge democracy protests — and a pandemic response that plunged Hong Kong into international isolation.The chief executive position is not popularly elected, one of the core demands of democracy protests which have since been crushed.The city’s next leader will be chosen on May 8 but so far no one with a realistic prospect has publicly thrown their hat into the ring.
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