Hong Kong’s National Security Branch scandal and variant of New Crown virus flow into the community, but the latest poll conducted by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute shows that the popularity of CE Carrie Lam and the government only hovers at a low point, with no significant change. 40% of the respondents gave CE a score of 0, giving a net popularity of negative 50%, while the net satisfaction value of the Hong Kong government is negative 46%, and the net trust value is negative 22%. Analysis shows that after the implementation of the national security law, the worst or worse has already happened, “unless another very extreme event happens”, the impact is not significant, but it is certain that Hong Kong is in the worst political environment, and the Hong Kong government cannot regain people’s trust.
HKUPOP interviewed 1004 Hong Kong people between May 17 and 21 by random telephone sampling, and found that the rating of CE Carrie Lam was 30.8 marks, 40% of the respondents gave her 0 marks, giving her a net popularity of negative 50 percentage points, not much different from two weeks ago.
Hong Kong government, CE’s popularity hovering at low point
As for the SAR Government, the net satisfaction rate is negative 46%, the net trust value is negative 22%, while people’s appraisal of the current political, economic and livelihood conditions, the net satisfaction rate is negative 40%, negative 43% and negative 44% respectively, all figures are also not much different from last month’s comparison. The latest Public Sentiment Index is 70.4, slightly down 0.3 point from two weeks ago.
In the past two weeks, many social incidents have attracted local and international attention, including the patronage of unlicensed sex massage parlors by the Director of National Security, Choi Chin-pang, the inflow of several variants of the New Guinea virus into the community, and the freezing of assets of Next Media founder Lai Chi-ying.
District Council Chairman Hui Kam Shing: Unless there are more extreme events
On the reason for the lack of significant changes in the poll results, Wong Tai Sin District Council Chairman Hui Kam-shing believes that the popularity of the Hong Kong government and the Chief Executive was at its lowest ebb, and people have long endured the serious impact of the national security law and the pan-democratic raids, unless there are more extreme events, there will not be much reaction.
Hui Kam-shing said: The political atmosphere in Hong Kong is now the worst. The red line of the national security law is constantly drifting, do not grasp where the red line is. Unless that incident is very extreme. The situation has not reached the worse degree expected by the public, now the political impact does not fall much, so the rating drop is not large.
For the District Council members to take the oath, as well as to provide the primary election venue for District Council members will be accused of violating the National Security Law and other rumors, the impact on future public sentiment, Xu Jincheng believes that 40% of people are dissatisfied with the Hong Kong government, the middle strayed from the number of people, so the change is not expected to be significant.
Favorable factors fail to save the reputation of Hong Kong government
According to the analysis by HKUPOP’s Deputy Chief Executive, Mr. Edwin Chung, the popularity of the Hong Kong government and the Chief Executive are at their lowest ebb, with past findings hovering at a low level. However, he pointed out that even though the number of people infected with the disease and the unemployment rate have dropped recently, they have not significantly increased the popularity of the Hong Kong government, reflecting that the positive factors have not helped much in saving the popularity of the Hong Kong government, which has not broken through the political deadlock.
Chung mentioned that the Chief Executive’s remarks on the oath of office of District Council members reflected the irresponsible attitude of the Hong Kong government, and the society suffered the bad consequences.
Zhong Jianhua said: we can see that Hong Kong’s predicament has no end. The whole community in the government so the attitude and behavior of governance, pay a great price, I am not polite, think this government should be condemned. Carrie Lam’s remarks this morning (25), as the Chief Executive, how can you say so? The (oath) legislation was made by you, and now ask district councilors to resign automatically and voluntarily before DQ, which is quite ugly.
The founding president of the Hong Kong Federation of Licensed Bar Associations, Mr. Leung Lap-yan, also said that the difficulties in the administration of the Hong Kong government are due to a lack of trust in the people, “the recent low vaccination figures can be seen”, describing the public’s mentality towards the Hong Kong government is “no expectations, no disappointment”.
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