By Chris Yeung
Pundits say a “chief executive battle in the dark” (特首暗戰) has begun. Even if, a big if, the warfare under daylight has not started, it won’t take long for aspirants for the top post to enter into close counters and direct rivalry under the sun.
The weekend saw Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who has said he would like to seek another term even before he took the oath for his first term in 2012, gearing up his re-election campaign in a blitz of publicity.
On Saturday, he spoke on the “Belt and Road” strategy, one of his pet subjects, at RTHK’s Letter to Hong Kong. Also on Saturday, TVB ran the first of a three-part interview with Leung.
The TVB interview is the third he gave to media outlets this month. He rarely gave one-on-one interview to the media before then.
In Saturday’s interview, he rebuked criticism against his governance style and record.
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