The government is about to change, and Chief Executive Carrie Lam will attend the last question-and-answer session of the Legislative Council tomorrow (9th). As far as I know, many lawmakers who are relatively active in words and deeds do not initially plan to ask questions at this question-and-answer session. They would rather "Leave the quota" and ask questions after Li Jiachao takes office. This question-and-answer session may be just a "routine business".
In the last two Q&A sessions, Carrie Lam did not announce that the non-re-elected MPs expressed strong dissatisfaction with the epidemic prevention
By convention, during each Legislative Council session, the Chief Executive will attend at least four Legislative Council meetings, including at least one policy address reading and three question-and-answer sessions.
Carrie Lam attended the Legislative Council question and answer session on January 12 and March 23 this year, the latter being conducted by video.
During the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong, there were many chaos, the government was losing ground, and Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor's attitude towards universal testing also changed many times, and the "reflection" advocated by lawmakers on the same day once aroused the anger of the establishment camp. Therefore, the question and answer in March During the meeting, several lawmakers pressed the government on its shortcomings in handling the epidemic, but they all received a "warm reminder" beforehand that the wording should not be too strong.
However, with Carrie Lam's announcement in early April that she would not be running for re-election, the establishment party's attitude towards Carrie Lam has also undergone subtle changes. Some lawmakers bluntly said that since Carrie Lam is about to step down, there is no point in sniping at the other party.
Carrie Lam is about to leave office, and it is unknown whether she will summarize her five-year work at the question-and-answer session.
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The lawmaker said he would leave the opportunity to ask Mr. Li Jiachao
According to the current regulations, when the President of the Legislative Council decides the order of questions from members at the Chief Executive's Q&A session and question time, the number of questions asked at the previous Q&A sessions during the current term will be determined, and the member who has asked the fewest questions will have priority.
In the last two Q&A sessions, 39 Members have already asked questions. In other words, excluding Chairman Leung Kwan-yin, 50 Members will have the opportunity to ask questions tomorrow.
However, the author has learned from a number of MPs who have not yet asked questions and are relatively active in their words and deeds, and many of them expressed the same view: since Carrie Lam is about to step down, it is of little significance to urge a certain policy. When I had the opportunity to ask questions, I asked the other party to "perform", and one of them said with a smile: "Actually, there is no point in talking about it. It's pointless to play the 'reservoir dog'. Oneself." A major party lawmaker said that until tomorrow there will be no questions at all, there will always be at least one or two representatives of the party speaking, but the content is not expected to be too aggressive.
Lee Ho-yin, a member of the Legislative Council of the Election Commission, said that he expected to wait for the next question-and-answer session to try to ask questions: "I want to be more targeted and ask about the policies of the new government." However, there are also senior members who say that Carrie Lam has done her best during her tenure. , to implement a number of education, labor and welfare policies, and I would like to express my thanks to her if I have the opportunity.
In the new Legislative Council, the pro-democracy faction has disappeared.
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Leung Chun-ying spends a lot of time reviewing his political achievements in the last session
Before the last government's term expired, the then Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying spent much time reviewing his work over the past five years in a question-and-answer session on June 1, 2017, and talked about his important policies, including the establishment of the Innovation and Technology Bureau, the establishment of a poverty line, etc. There was also a smell of gunpowder in the process. The then congressmen Liang Guoxiong and Liu Xiaoli were successively expelled by Liang Junyan due to excessive protests.
At that time, the questions raised by the pro-establishment members were also mainly summative.
However, some members of the establishment have privately said that "this time is different from the past." The pro-democracy faction has disappeared in the Legislative Council, and the parliament is much more "harmonious", and the establishment may not have much motivation to actively speak out against the opposition.
The current government has gone through major events such as the amendment bill, the enactment of the National Security Law, and the reform of the electoral system. Carrie Lam's five-year tenure can be described as turbulent. She said last month that she hoped to summarize the work of her term of office on the eve of her departure, but there has been no following. , Let's see if she will reveal her insights on 5 years of work at the question-and-answer meeting.
This is not the last time Carrie Lam has stepped into the Legislative Council. On the 21st of this month, the President of the Legislative Council will hold a farewell luncheon for her.
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