Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung had to put down his Easter eggs and do a whole lot of word-eating yesterday after he was called out on his claim that the concept of the public nominating their leaders was never contemplated in the drafting of the Basic Law.
At a speech on Saturday marking the 25th anniversary of the release of the Basic Law, Leung claimed such a crazy idea was never even discussed, reiterating this in another statement later that afternoon.
His comments were, however, rebuked by Democrat Martin Lee, who was on the committee that drafted the Basic Law.
He said that although it wouldn’t constitute actual Universal Suffrage, one of the models required candidates to receive 50 public nomination before being put forward for election by a 600-strong committee.
Just two hours after Leung stood by his stance, he was therefore forced to come out with ANOTHER statement, although he only admitted that two of five models considered allowing for one person-one-vote without candidates having to be selected by prior public nomination.
Lee did not accept the “apology” all too graciously, accusing Leung of deliberately telling lies to the public.
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