By Chris Yeung
Fighting back criticism against her civil service colleagues over the handling, or rather mishandling, of the “lead-in-water” scandal at a Legco meeting last year, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has hinted at her imminent retirement from the corridors of power. She told legislators she has more guts and dare to speak boldly because she did not aspire for higher positions in the Government.
One year on, she remains bold in countering attacks against the Leung administration she deems unfair. Her insistence that no single official in the bureaucracy should be held responsible for the tainted water scandal is just one of the cases in point. But increasingly, her claim of having no intention of running for the next chief executive election has been greeted by doubts.
In what is seen by political pundits as a tentative governing blueprint, Lam has shared her “seven visions” for Hong Kong at a forum entitled Imagine Hong Kong organised by the Path of Democracy to mark its first anniversary on Saturday.
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