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You said it is a very difficult decision topostpone the legislative election why is that? Well, first of all This legislative council election is ageneral election that is held once every four years and we all know that whenever we have a generalelection of the legislative council It's highly competitive, so a lot of people want to get into the legislative council and of course prior to our decision we all know that Hong Kong has gone througha very difficult highly politicized and very polarizedsituation so at this point in time for the chiefexecutive to take a decision to postpone the election will give rise to all sorts of speculations but ultimately nothing is more importantthan life than the safety of Hong Kong people So when the COVID-19 epidemic suddenlyre-emerged from from the first week in July and then the situation deteriorated to suchan extent that we got very worried whether we still havethe conditions to conduct a fair and safe general election and the conclusion is we could not run therisk Although I did not have a crystal ball infront of me to foresee the situation on the 6th ofSeptember but we all know that election is not justabout the activities on the voting day there would be a lot of electioneeringactivities which will gather crowds of people and, andso on and so on so it was indeed a very difficult decisionto make But I have to say that this is the rightdecision to make and talking about speculations you justsaid specifically I heard they say that you'reusing COVID-19 as an excuse because some are afraid of losing in theupcoming legislative election How do you respond? If the chief executive was so powerful tomanipulate the situation of the epidemic to createconfirmed cases to admit people into hospitals and I have nothing to say, but that issimply unrealistic We all have all these figures in front ofus and all this fatalities Well before I make the decision that isbefore the first week of July Hong Kong has only a thousand two hundred confirmedcases and less than 10 fatal cases Now we have 4500 and the number of deaths went up to 60something So isn't it a very severe situation thatany government leader will have to address it very seriously so despite the inevitable speculations oreven some overseas attacks on the administration and on myself I think this is a responsible decision tomake and in fact if one moves away from thisbias and prejudice and try to look at what the rest of theworld is doing according to some international think tanks the number of countries and territoriesthat have the schedule election postponed is more than the number of countries that continue with the scheduled election just called a very a place which we're allvery familiar and that is the united kingdom as early as March the united kingdom has already decided topostpone all the local government elections as wellas the London mayor and other mayor election by one year to May,next year so I think we are only doing what is right just like what other governments are doingwhat is right for their people
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发表于 2020-9-20 22:24:22
