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Hong Kong’s leading candidate for the city’s top government job has secured enough nominations required for the leadership race just a day after John Lee kicked off his campaign,
according to the South China Morning Post.
The city’s former chief secretary received more than 200 nominations as of Sunday, the newspaper reported Chan Yung, a deputy director for Lee’s campaign office, as saying. Chan said the team hoped to get at least 500 nominations.
Lee resigned last week as Hong Kong’s No. 2 official to run, with China’s cabinet approving his departure.
During a press briefing, he declared “loyalty is the basic requirement. The chief executive must be a patriotic person.†Current Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, just after the start of a two-week period to obtain nominations, that she wouldn’t seek another 5-year term.