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Excerpts from the Chief Executive's Press Conference on 4/2/2020

• The Medical Workers' strike have affected the operation for the Intensive Care for Newborns Unit, calling it “very sad and hurtful”

• Impressed by the medical workers who stay in their post

• Calls for the medical staff on strike to change their minds and return to work

• Government policy is not like “squeezing a toothpaste”, the administration is working day and night to implement and review measures to counter the epidemic. “Do not be surprised when we have new announcements every two days”

• Clarifies that she does not have cancer

• Announces a new internal directive regarding the use of masks for all the departments within the government. Only the sick, front line medical staff, and the ones who work in crowded areas are required to wear a mask. Government is spearheading efforts to reduce the use of mask to ensure adequate supply for the medical staffers. Lam deemed it not necessary to wear a mask while addressing the press.

Source: InMediaHK
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Carrie Lam Still Earns HKD390,800 per Month After 'Salary Reduction'

The Office of the Chief Executive announced that Carrie Lam will reduce her salary for 10% in the upcoming year to HKD390,800 per month. Executive Council non-official members will also reduce their salaries for 10%.

Source: RTHK

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China Axes Hong Kong's Electoral System to Boost Influence

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On March 30, 2021, Beijing imposed an overhaul in Hong Kong's electoral system. After a two-day meeting, the PRC's National People’s Congress Standing Committee (#NPCSC) directly amended two annexes in Hong Kong's Basic Law. All these changes will come into immediate effect on March 31, 2021.

In the Election Committee to select the Chief Executive, all 117 district councillor seats are eliminated.

The seats are replaced by “representatives of members of area committees”, including members of the government-appointed District Fight Crime Committees, the District Fire Safety Committee of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, as well as representatives of associations of Hong Kong residents in the mainland.

A new sector will be added. They are deputies to the PRC's National People’s Congress (#NPC), the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (#CPPCC), as well as representatives of “Hong Kong members of relevant national organisations”.

As for the Legislative Council (#LegCo), the number of directly elected seats in the geographical constituency will be reduced. The District Councillor seats within the LegCo are to be removed.

The changes are likely to increase the influence of the pro-Establishment camp while ridding of the role of the locally elected District Councillors.

The District Council election had been the only direct election in Hong Kong since the Handover in 1997. In the 2019 election, the pro-democracy camp had a landslide victory across the territory, winning 388 seats to the pro-Beijing camp's 59.

Source: Stand News #Mar30

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