Hong Kong Leader John Lee Prioritizes Upcoming Polls Over By-Election

Holding by-election to replace disgraced lawmaker low priority, John Lee says

Holding a by-election to fill a seat vacated by former lawmaker William Wong Kam-fai after he resigned over a drink-driving arrest is a lower priority than preparing three important polls over the next 18 months, Hong Kong’s leader has said. Weighing in on the issue for the first time nearly a month after Wong’s resignation, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu stressed that electoral authorities needed to weigh the “necessity of a poll”, alongside manpower and logistics in deciding whether to...

By Natalie Wong