Top HK officials promote constitutional reform package in bus-parade
Xinhua, April 25, 2015 Adjust font size:
Hong Kong's Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam on Saturday took part in a territory- wide bus-parade to publicize the proposal on universal suffrage of chief executive in 2017.
Apart from Lam, the other two members of the Task Force on Constitutional Development -- Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen and Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam, as well as other politically appointed officials also participated in the parade.
Riding on a open-top double-decker bus on which slogans of " 2017 Make it happen!" were hung, the officials waved to passers-by on the streets. Some members of the public gathered to welcome the bus, echoing the slogans.
The parade took place in the afternoon when the bus passed through Kennedy Town in Hong Kong Island, Lok Fu in Kowloon and Tai Po in the New Territories.
The Hong Kong government revealed on April 22 the constitutional reform package designed for the election of the next chief executive by "one person, one vote" universal suffrage in 2017. Endi