Just Saying | Who in their right mind would want to be Hong Kong’s next leader?
Yonden Lhatoo says Leung Chun-ying’s experience shows the city’s next chief executive is in for a world of pain in a highly polarised and politicised climate
The more I look at our chief executive’s face on television or in newspapers these days, the more I want to ask him, in all sincerity: dude, is it really worth it?
I mean, seriously, Leung Chun-ying looks gaunter, greyer and grimmer than ever.
I remember how he bowed a lot that day in July 2012, when a small-circle election installed him as Hong Kong’s top official. These days, all I see is an increasingly stooped version of our fearless leader scurrying past angry protesters wherever he goes.
Otherwise, it’s only pained smiles in the spotlight and foot in mouth when confronted by the media pack, which is armed to the teeth with awkward questions.
I neither want to attack nor defend Leung in this column. I just want to take a step back and look at the man we’ve seen so far in the context of what this town has become. And why he, or anyone else, would want his job.
